Here are some things you need to know about politics, economics, and the environment.
1. The rich get what they want from politicians, and you don't.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
2. Rich people take trillions from poor people each year.
rand.org/pubs/working_p…
3. Rich countries take trillions from poor countries each year.
tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
4. Britain took tens of trillions from India (and probably a similar figure from Africa - still looking for those figures).
aljazeera.com/opinions/2018/…
5. After enslaving Haitians, France extorted tens of billions from them to compensate for lost "property" (ie., the slaves who became independent).
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
6. The US military is the world's largest polluter.
Have a good day.
ecowatch.com/military-large…
7. 100 companies are doing most of the climate change causing emissions.
newsweek.com/climate-change…
8. Inequality is the cause of a whole host of health and social problems.
equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/the-…
9. The US military's "war on terror" has displaced 37 million people.
watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fil…
10. The same set of post-2001 US wars have killed 5-7 million people.
archive.is/2018.07.17-080…
11. Most social democratic gains in the West were won as concessions under the fear of the Soviet example.
researchgate.net/publication/33…
12. The poor countries export are sending not just their wealth and their labor, but all of their resources to the rich countries, year after year.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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