Amid COVID-19, Trump Deploys Destroyers & Aircraft to Stop Drug Cartels
President Trump announced a new operation to crack down on cartels who are allegedly trying to take advantage of the coronavirus situation.
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Massacre During Soccer Game at Mexican Prison Leaves 16 Dead
Cartel members battled with guns, knives inside prison
Mexico Arrests Three Suspects In Mormon Family Massacre
Trump working to classify cartels as terrorist orgs
Mexico Sends in Troops After Failed ‘El Chapo’ Son Arrest
400 elite soldiers deployed to battle cartels
Leading Mexican Columnist: Where Is the Outrage over Cartel Mass Murders?
’19 bodies in Uruapan, 10 in Veracruz. Why don’t they get as angry as those in El Paso?’
Is This Why Productivity Has Tanked and Wealth Inequality Has Soared?
One of the enduring mysteries in conventional economics (along with why wages for the bottom 95% have stagnated) is the recent decline in productivity gains (see chart). Since gains in productivity are the ultimate source of higher wages, these issues are…
Are Profit and Healthcare Incompatible?
As I have been noting for a decade, the broken U.S. healthcare system will bankrupt the nation all by itself. We all know the basic facts: the system delivers uneven results in terms of improving health and life expectancy while costing…
Our Hopelessly Dysfunctional Democracy
Democracy in America has become a hollow shell. The conventional markers of democracy–elections and elected representatives–exist, but they are mere facades; the mechanisms of setting the course of the nation are corrupt, and the power lies outside the public’s reach.…
Be Your Own Medicine
I recently saw a slogan that encapsulated what’s wrong with the U.S. healthcare system: Be Your Own Medicine. To Be Your Own Medicine is the essence of prevention, and a way of taking full ownership of one’s health, body, mind,…
Why The Status Quo Is Doomed: Income Stagnates, Costs Rise
Even if nothing else doomed the status quo, the widening gap between household incomes and costs will push the corrupt contraption over the cliff by itself. The status quo (whatever you wish to call it) requires “growth” to sustain itself–growth…
A Fatal Accident Waiting to Happen: U.S. Healthcare
Many of the systems we take for granted are historical accidents. Either based on legacy systems hundreds of years old (higher education) or assembled in a short-term, ad hoc fashion (post-1940 national defense/ national security), these systems have expanded into…
For Years, DEA Agents Attended Illegal ‘Sex Parties’ Paid for By Drug Cartels, Using Government Buildings
‘According to a recent report from Justice Department watchdog sources, a number of DEA agents are being accused of having “sex parties” with prostitutes that were purchased by drug cartels. These were not isolated incidents […]