Dear Caitlin Johnstone:

Thank you for all of your efforts. They have NOT been in vain. Please do not let your ego (which we all have) tell you not to give yourself as much as before to what seems like an unresponsive world. It isn't easy to see, considering how much the media squelches news of the changing attitudes of people and the effects that has already been having, the movement towards stopping what has been going on for centuries. This is the time to continue your very valuable work unabated and not get discouraged.

I posted the following comment on Truthdig that acknowledges how bad and good things have become.

"All the problems Republicans and establishment Democrats have created are dwarfed by their incredibly blind opposition to ameliorating (its too late to stop) climate change and their craven efforts to blame Russia for everything bringing us closer to a nuclear holocaust. Their craven fear of losing their privileged positions and wealth has brought all of us closer to extinction. The media have been the main force in making come about by their long time massive efforts to squelch environmental and antiwar concerns, including by making it seem like that there is no great change in how people feel about these issues.

Yet quietly there is a rising tide of opposition even among the 1% to the course being taken by that mad dog in the White House and his accomplices in Congress and the Supreme Court. Even the greed damaged minds of the 1% have become aware that you cannot hoard huge amounts of money and other forms of power to feel you own and run the world when that world, through their efforts, is becoming inhospitable to our species continuing. Their growing awareness has come through the work of journals such as Truthdig, Consortium News, et al and the work of courageous journalists such Caitlin Johnstone and others. I hope they continue their work unabated and give enough weight to what they have accomplished and not let their egos (which we all have ) encourage them to feel it all comes to nothing. It doesn't. e.g. the children of the world are beginning to object to having no future, and this can only increase.

Thirty years ago there were no AOCs or Omars in Congress, no Tulsi Gabbards or Bernie Sanders running for President (you have to go back to FDR to find such), no rising might in China and Russia opposing US imperialism, no favoring of Socialism over Capitalism in the younger generation, no talk of the greed of the 1%, no such widespread distrust of the mainstream media!, no widespread domestic fear of our government, no increasing inability of all but the biggest corporations to make real profit (i.e. without manipulating the financials), no non-union resistance to corporate power (though guided by unions), no great anger among the vast majority of Americans on how they are treated economically (albeit some of it disastrously misdirected), and so many more other types of resistance to "business as usual" that is going on which the media tries to make into nothing. And all this is happening despite all the years of a massive onslaught of mainstream propaganda trying to fool the American people, and many other people overseas, into believing what is evil is good, and what is good is either evil, weak or a fraud!