The popular uprising in Iraq is heating up again, competing for headline space with Lebanon and Chile. The periphery of global neoliberal rule is in rebellion. Meanwhile, the United States has declared its intention to garrison the Syrian oil fields of Deir ez-Zor with additional troops and tanks. Germany wants to send tens of thousands of NATO troops to occupy Rojava. And The New York Times correspondent Ben Hubbard has penned a lachrymose article from an undisclosed location in "Northeastern Syria" about the ongoing detention of ISIS combatants and their kin, yet the "newspaper of record" has not a word about Julian Assange.
Closer to home, Amazon is attempting to buy the Seattle City Council, having recently dumped $1 million in a chamber of commerce PAC. Amazon's principal target is socialist Kshama Sawant. If Amazon can buy an election in my neighborhood, it can buy an election anywhere. If Kshama Sawant can't swim above the tsunami of mega-corp cash, we're all in trouble -- from Santiago to Baghdad; from Beirut to Seattle; from Kobani to Sinaloa, and everywhere else.
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