162 - Frustrated Incorporated

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.” ―Gustave Flaubert

“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.” ―Kurt Gödel

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General Recommendations

• JD's Recommendation: Little Women
• JNM's Recommendation: The Long Goodbye

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• US launched 251 military interventions since 1991, and 469 since 1798
• MAGA 'communism'? Ridiculous right-wing grifters cash in posing as 'patriotic socialists'
• If We Want Humanity to Survive, We Must Cooperate With China 
• Branko Marcetic RT: "Was alerted to this new Foreign Affairs piece where Fiona Hill accidentally lets slip a key fact: Russia & Ukraine agreed to a tentative settlement in April that would've halted the war, Course, Hill doesn't mention UK PM flew to Kiev instantly to scuttle it."
• ARTICLE: West killed peace proposal to end Ukraine war, Russia supported negotiated settlement + VIDEO 
• West prepares to plunder post-war Ukraine with neoliberal shock therapy: privatization, deregulation, slashing worker protections
• Zelensky rings New York Stock Exchange bell as Euro dips below dollar
• As Zelensky outlaws labor organizing, he appeared on Wall Street to launch #AdvantageUkraine, a shameless appeal for the corporate plunder of Ukraine which promises rapid deregulation and features the country's arms industry at the top of its "investment menu"
• Zelensky quietly deletes photo of his bodyguard’s pro-Hitler patch
• Germans revive Cold War Monday demonstrations amid inflation
• Ursula von der Leyen: “We must Flatten the Curve” speech: Backlash
• Europe Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy

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