A broken government isn’t the cause of our economic woes; rather, it is a symptom of it. And the pathogen is intransigent ideologies that seek to funnel wealth to the very top regardless of the cost.
So he’s Latino and cares about the poor. That’s great. But he’s also said very homophobic things in the past and now some believe the new pope to have been complicit with Argentina’s homicidal junta in the late 70’s. So yes, Pope Francis is changing up the papacy on a superficial level. It’s the deeper, less reactionary stuff that matters. And in that way, nothing has changed in the slightest.
The 2003-incepted War in Iraq marks its ten-year anniversary this month. While most mass media and even left-leaning politicians seemed to fall for the Bush administration’s bait, the same couldn’t be said for cartoonists. Here are some high–and low–lights.
Someone hand me some Advil. I’ve got a massive headache.
At least the slaves powering frigates of yore weren’t under any illusions that they were rowing their way to wealth.
