Trump and his proposed secretary of education wish to undermine and destroy public education.

The result would be great for the private owners that squeeze money out of cheap private schools at the expense of children and teachers.

The US Export-Import Bank has put over 30 billion dollars into construction of fossil fuel infrastructure that will continue pushing the world towards disaster.

Brennan, head of the CIA, warned Trump that cancelling the nuclear agreement with Iran would be disastrous.

Thousands of low-paid workers went on strike Tuesday in 340 US cities.

Hundreds of them were arrested.

Trudeau has approved an additional pipeline to transport tar sands oil to the Pacific coast for export.

Once new fossil fuel supply infrastructure is built, it makes reduction of fossil fuel use much harder. The pipeline owners always pressure for it to continue to be used. "We have a right to return on our investment", they say.

Not at the cost of millions of lives, they don't!

Note how Trudeau justifies his decision based on assuming that oil extraction in Canada will increase. In other — in other words, assuming that we won't avoid disaster. That's defeatism.