Similar Posts
Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the English Peasant Revolt of 1381
In this 1470 illustration, the radical priest John Ball galvanizes the rebels. The British Library
We Need to Talk About These Floods – Sue Higginson
Giordano Nanni from Juice Media Podcasts interviews Sue Higginson, a ‘kickass’ environmental lawyer on the devastating floods in Australia.
Canadian Workers Fight to Nationalize GM Plant – Sam Gindin
In Oshawa Ontario, workers organize for a public takeover an unused GM plant to produce electric vehicles or supplied to fight the pandemic. Sam Gindin joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.
Bolivia’s Election Result Embarrasses the OAS Yet Again
The October 18th presidential election in Bolivia confirms that leftist candidate Luis Arce won the presidency with a solid majority, which puts yet another nail in the coffin of the OAS’s efforts to meddle in Bolivia. CEPR’s Jake Johnston, who analyzed the highly questionable OAS audit of last year’s election, which justified the coup, discusses how this recent result presents a challenge to US foreign policy towards Bolivia.
Honest Government Ad | Economic Recovery – Super Satire from Juice Media
From Australia’s Juice Media, another bitingly funny take down of . . . well, all our governments’ B.S.
Honest Government Ad | Hotel Quarantine
The Australien Government has made an ad about its hotel quarantine and vaccines policies, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
I enjoy these spots and empathize with the expression of futility about the lack of action on climate change often contained in them. It’s worth pointing out in reference to this spot’s celebration of Tesla’s lithium batteries, however, that Bolivia is rich in lithium which is the reason the democratically elected government of Evo Morales was ousted in a coup. Elon Musk said about the coup, “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” Truer capitalist words have hardly ever been spoken.
The use of “shock words” to stimulate laughter when the humor is weak loses effectiveness very quickly. It is tiresome and insulting. Many on the net do it, and the more the less merry.