Now let’s talk turkey. Get down to brass tacks. Cut to the chase. Lay it on the line. Tell it like it is. In other words, let’s talk money; viz., how our society has been deliberately and institutionally structured to employ money as a means of social and political ordering on behalf of the razor-thin sliver of the wealthy elite (and the many courtiers and sycophants who feed avidly on their crumbs).

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I know the police cause you trouble;
They cause trouble everywhere.
But when you die and go to heaven,
You won’t find no policeman there.

— Goebel Reeves, “Hobo’s Lullabye”

Glenn Greenwald tells a harrowing tale of  police-state tactics in Minneapolis, with armed security forces conducting Baghdad-like raids on the houses of activists, terrorizing many and arresting some for thought crimes