Truthout

The corporate state today is stronger than it’s ever been.Thanks to the Supreme Court, our elections are up for sale to the highest bidder – be it a billionaire casino mogul like Sheldon Adelson or a massive transnational corporation like Koch Industries.

Although Mitt Romney would prefer you didn’t think about it, the true test of the quality and resilience of a nation and its political systems comes when it’s most stressed.

Ten years from now we will all look back at this upcoming election and we’ll realize that it was here that the Progressive wave of reform that surged forward at the turn of the 20th Century – and made life better for billions of people in this nation over the last 100 years – finally broke and receded backward into the abyss.

Just when the austerity-ravaged people of Greece thought things couldn’t get any worse for them, their universal healthcare system is dismantled and turned into an American-style death system.

In the past, diseases like tuberculosis and malaria have been number one health concerns around the world.

If you fly over the country of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, the island on which Columbus landed, it looks like somebody took a blowtorch and burned away anything green.