*Cop26 leaders blame individuals, while supporting a far more destructive system.*

*hellip; we can return to the question of individual consumption and ask if there are ways of making our personal choices as a way of developing =– rather than distracting from -– systemic change.*

US citizens: call on the Senate to end the filibuster. US citizens: call on the Senate to end the filibuster.

It is important to keep up the pressure on this point.

*If Democrats return to [so-called] centrism, <"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/08/if-democrats-return-to-centrism-they-are-doomed-to-lose-against-trump">they are doomed to lose against Trump.*

"Centrists" is the propaganda word that plutocratists use to pretend that the political center of the US is where they are, just as the communists called themselves "Bolshavik" ("on the big side") to pretend that they represented the majority of socialists. Let's not spread that falsehood. According to an opinion polls,

an overwhelming majority of Americans support the main political positions of progressives Democrats. The proper term for the "centrists" is "pluocratist."

Analyzing how US troops <"https://theintercept.com/2021/11/04/kabul-drone-strike-military-investigation-intelligence/">mistook a family for a PIS bomber and then treated it as unquestioable truth.

It would not be just, or useful, to criminalize this mistake, but it is important to change the system to prevent future similar mistakes.

*When Are We Going to Talk About the Outrageous Cost of <"https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/11/08/when-are-we-going-talk-about-outrageous-cost-not-passing-build-back-better-act">NOT Passing the Build Back Better Act?*