The Real News Network has an excellent segment Trump’s Opioid Response Ignores Real Solutions.

President Trump has declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency, but his ‘Just Say No’-like approach ignores the roots of addiction and proven ways to address it, says best-selling author Johann Hari.

This talks about some solutions that have a history or working. It is nothing like what I have been touting lately about jailing the pushers in the executive suites of the big pharmaceutical companies. In fact the interviewee mentions why my idea is not the solution.

People’s World has the article AFL-CIO calls for a break with “lesser of two evils” politics.

“For decades the political system has failed working people,” Weingarten said. “Acting on behalf of corporations and the rich and powerful, the political system has been taking away, one after another, the pillars that support working people’s right to good jobs and secure benefits.”

I am glad to see that the labor unions are waking up to the fact that something has to change in the way we do politics if workers are ever to get a fair chance again.

The article has some discussion about the idea of a Labor Party, and some of the problems of getting such a party established.