Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
People were poor by today's standards, so why do people remember the plantation life fondly? The answer is simple: community, purpose, sacrifice and meaning.
Allow me to connect two apparently unconnected dots. Dot #1: The last sugar plantation in Hawaii is closing down, ending more than a century of plantation life in the 50th state.
Ron Paul has accused the American government of constantly interfering in elections in foreign countries “all the time,” and has slammed them for their hypocrisy. The former US Congressman told Fox Business Network there is barely any proof that Russia influenced the outcome of the US election, but says that America openly influences elections abroad without any ‘outcry’ from the media.
Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, who in the summer of 2015 was briefly elevated to the status of the "world's most hated man", when he became the poster boy for soaring drug prices after he hiked the price of Daraprim more than 50-fold, i.e., he was a capitalist who did everything permitted under the law to boost profit, shortly before Congress "realized" that virtually every other drug company was engaged in similar "price gouging" appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss not only the ongoing controversy surrounding not just Daraprim pricing, but his outlook for the pharmaceuti
Is this a full-blown mutiny? Or did Democrats just reach the fifth stage of grief - "acceptance"? In a NYTimes op-ed, they begin by claiming that "President Obama will be remembered as a thoughtful and dignified president, but admit his legacy regrettably includes the more than 1,000 Democrats who lost their elections during his two terms. Republicans now have total control in half of America’s states...Why such political carnage?"
Via The New York Times,
Via GEFIRA,
In 1992, at the end of the Cold War, an American political scientist infamously proclaimed "the end of history:" liberal democracy and the capitalist system has won, the rest of the world will eventually embrace western ideas as superior to theirs because only they are able to provide peace and prosperity.