Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Monsanto found guilty, widespread sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania, who Democrats are listening to, and more.
How to argue with gun nuts
Understand that pro-gun advocates almost never argue the merits of specific legislation.
The empty piety of the American Press
Corporations that own the press look at news as a revenue stream. Journalism is irrelevant.
Facts that privileged Americans don’t want us to know
The following facts should have been reported by the mainstream media, but unfortunately most of that media is controlled by the very people who have reason to hide the facts.
Big Pharma is the most widely hated industry in the US
With drug prices continuing to sore and the ongoing opioid epidemic and lawsuits associated with it, the industry's rating likely will not recover any time soon.
The United States of consumption
Our trash and our lives, here and abroad.
Mass shootings in the US have risen sharply in 2020—why?
There have been 578 mass shootings so far this year, this is already significantly above the 417 mass shootings recorded in the whole of 2019.
Here are the major companies cutting ties with the NRA
The NRA has a host of more than twenty national corporations that offer discounts to their members, but that number is shrinking fast.
Hit Piece on Sanders Proposals Relies on Pro-Clinton Economists Mislabeled as ‘Leftists’
NY Times runs hit piece on Sanders and his Medicare-for-all health plan, citing four supposedly independent "left-leaning" economists, all of whom actually worked for the Clinton and/or Obama administrations, are not "left-leaning" and who are actually Clinton backers.
Role of youth in the coming transformation
These crises are coming to a head and provide the environment for transformational changes, if we act.









