"The Art of the Steal" now available in all banks of the US of A.

Did you even hear about America's Apple's Foxconn factory in China where the factory has nets on the windows to stop the frequent 'inconvenient' problem of cheap labor workers attempts of window jump suicides, for example? Co-operative structure (worker-owned) companies have more likelihood to have more human policies to, uh, themselves, than ponzi scheme corporations. Despite a fancy socialist ('communist') sounding title of government structure, Russia and China both took International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans, with their conditions of worker rights suffocation policies and market concentration monopolization policies. America's and China's feudalist monopolist billionaires have a lot more proximity of ideology than either of their propaganda machines has acknowledged so far.

About illegal U.S. Command operations in the global south: That does not seem surprising with America’s (and Canada's) CIA illegal covert war operations of multiple homicides (more than hundreds, plausibly more than thousands per year going on for decades now (2026)) of gunning down and of bombing peasants in lands with concentrations of petroleum and gold and silver (e.g. Mexico, Columbia, and very recently Venezuelan parliament, and Nigerian peasant village). Even a brief surface review of a Netflix show like ‘Narcos’ shows viewers America's CIA actually have been running south american drug cartels themselves, choosing a new dictator of a corporation bigger than many countries, in batches of approximately 2 years, based on levels of fascist servitude of their discursive positions. In the collusive monopolist tv news, they have been describing their actions using smokescreens of the likes of "The War On Drugs!", "protecting kids from drugs" (instead of actually funding education about drugs for informed healthy use of healthy drugs), and "spreading democracy" using guns and bombs like poison on a toast. Concurrently, their collusive monopolist corporations have been selling cocaine, opioids and benzodiazepines, in collusive monopolist hospitals of the likes of United Health Care Corp, the likes of which have been killing patients for profit by refusing to honor insurance and hospital care contracts, under an extensively documenting surveillance apparatus of their collusive monopolist corporations of the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Palantir.

What do we recommend then? Progressive taxation campaigns, funding education, paying university-level student work of studies, decomposition of monopolies through application of the actual law (e.g. anti-trust law, armed robbery and homicide law, etc.). Like Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, despite their plans of robbery of collective capital (privatization), there are many alternatives!

Or else what? Piketty (2013) argued that inequalities of the sort that such atrocities have emerged from have historically only come back down to normal levels of inequalities in the aftermath of the French Revolution and World Wars I and II.

References, recommended reading:

Paley, Dawn. 2012. “Drug War Capitalism”. AK Press. Piketty, Thomas. 2013. “Le Capital au 21e siecle.” Editions Seuil. Kropotkin, Pyotr. “The Conquest of Bread” (1892), “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution” (1902) Teachout, Zephyr. “Break’ em Up (2019)”

Happy reading!

MountainBear49

Who "we"? Not me. You seem to have tried to critique a fascist ('government') group of armed robbers, extorters, homiciders and genociders. Your critique would probably have more effect if you stopped supporting legitimacy of use of force of theirs by counting your name as part of that ('government' ) organization with the first person plural "we". THEY are fascists. THEY barely have managed scrounging a flimsy 19% of votes of the 330 000 000 residents of the so-callled U.S.A lands they have been occupying with surveillance, guns and bombs. THEY have addresses in the so-called U.S.A., on stolen indigenous tribal lands etc. THEY have been comitting genocide and have not stopped yet. THEY have real bank accounts with real addresses with specific amounts owing to tens of millions of victims per year so far.

That situation has devolved to where some (a concerning proportion of) cars have literally injuriously sight damagingly blinding light output on other road users, and thus in many cases against themselves. Their manufacturers should be fined. Regulations should enforce maximum angle and lumens output (per surface or per volume) concentration limits. Until then, more spontaneous reparations of the offensive devices will continue to have a higher likelihood and frequency of occurence (not to mention risks of injury and death by car collisions) than with basic human-health-integrity-respecting regulations as described in this here paragraph.

who "we" ? You probably meant their own monopolist media lies about them. Those are servile servants of a few genocidal feudalist monopolists with real names, addresses, and private property on grounds nearby and bank accounts hidden behind a few layers of fraudulent abstraction accounts in places of the like of Panama and Luxembourg. With a wave of privatization of collective-use property (a.k.a. rich elite robbing low and middle revenue classes) from the 1970's 'neo-liberal' doctrine monsters (e.g. Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, etc.), in the 2020's now almost every industry market has an infection of 3-4 corporations owning more than half of the market share, in some cases up to 90%. This problem is known to have happened 3 times so far in recorded history of income and wealth distribution, and every iteration yielded an approximately very similar result: (1) the French Revolution of 1789 from a society where approximately 3% of the population (mostly aristocrats and clergy) owned most of the wealth of France, (2) World War I, from a society where, in most European countries, up to 90% wealth was under gunpoint-based ownership of as few as 10% of the population, and (3) World War II from a society with a distribution of income and wealth similar as that of the development of WWI, where in many European countries, the richest 10% owned up to approximately 90% of national income and wealth. Every iteration where income and wealth distribution became so inequitable and unequal, inequality came back down to normal levels by war. For example, in French society of the early 1900s, a lawyer or a doctor fresh out of studies would earn approximately 12x LESS THAN AN INHERITOR of one of the top 10% wealth family estates doing VACATIONING ALL YEAR LONG, collecting interest on capital ownership, i.e. from having a name on a paper. ALTERNATIVELY, societies and countries with more livable and defendable REGULATION of excesses of capitalist feudalism, i.e. social democracy societies and countries, have had much smoother, respectable, defendable, and remarkable trajectories. (Reference: Thomas Piketty, 2013, “Le Capital au 21e siecle” (“Capital in the 21st Century))

Fascists have been robbing people at gunpoint in their own homes with approval from a serial killing billionaire monopolist state and that article talks about pseudoscience, non-verifiable, self-report based terms like feelings of anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Facts have shown that POVERTY causes anxiety, depression, and PTSD. POLICE STATE ARMED ROBBERIES CAUSE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, AND PTSD. They're more likely to happen to people on the antagonist side of the MERCK, PFIZER, GSK MONOPOLY DRUG CARTEL. That is a fact about cannabis possession, cultivation, usage, and sale. Another relevant fact about this study would be the shadow network of BIG PHARMA serial killers with residence addresses somewhere near readers of that article and bank accounts in 0-tax jurisdictions of the likes of Panama, Luxembourg, etc. that funded putting that pile of feces into a format that looks like a scientific article. In the meantime, those unethical bastards have been selling drugs of the likes of opioids, benzodiazepines, etc. from inside hospitals near the readers of that article, drugs that have killed tens of thousands if not millions of humans per year.

P.S. That article totally omits to even acknowledge the variety of types of cannabis with widely different molecular composition profiles.

P.P.S. That article also omits to acknowledge that fact that research on cannabis consumption therapy has been happening outside the fascist states of the american-european colonial (and racist) empire and their ‘universities’ (sites of propaganda) because of a little thing called a decades-long illegal criminalization of the non-violent behavior of personal choice of consumption of a plant flower with numerous therapy applications growable with a small budget in approximately any house.

With some of the worst education systems of all, they probably don't think much at all. Recently (a few days or weeks ago), Florida made teaching university sociology a crime. They promised them big easy pay and 'thanked' them 'for their 'service'', then turned around and cut veterans' pay (and benefits) like Milton Friedman cut school budgets into his personal pockets. Not surprisingly, their economy has a (opioid-style of) dependency of burying itself in campaigns of more debt of unsolicited military aggression, expropriative extraction of land, minerals, gunpoint-based cheap labor, and snake oil artificial 'intelligence' (i.e. statistical inference software), like a cancerous body turning on itself. However, like Milton Friedman's accomplices Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher refused to acknowledge, There are many alternatives! (like putting words on internet forums in the name of a pseudonym for high-quality free paid education work (because studying is work, and work is to be paid in a society that respects itself, some 'more normal' countries actually pay their students to study (e.g. Denmark, etc.))

a budget indebted of chinese, arab, russian, etc. holders of U.S. dollars and assets? have you tried to wake up a little?

who "we"? the chicago-school-'economics'-colonial-genocidal-necropolist-cannibalist-armed-robbery-capital-extraction-irraelist propaganda machine? not me

Canadian management of supply of agriculutral products, a.k.a monopolization of production permits, oligopoly, subsidization of already rich inherited fortunes of mostly colonial 'white' (beige, pale brown) men, harassment and incarceration of personal producers and of surplus resale to neighbors. Only 3 legal slaughterhouses of pigs for the entire province of Quebec, tens of hours of drive to get back a chicken and pig that may turn out being the product of another farmer... Something like 12 legal producers of eggs for the entire province of Quebec. Dependence on Mexican slave-like labor import for harvesting fruits and vegetables. $10/750ml of yogourt in 2025 CAD$ is far from affordable, that's an incitation to food riot! Thank supply management for the increase of risks of riots for food!

Utter bullshit methodology. Reference: Benjamin Case, "Street Rebellions" (2022). Goes through the entire dataset of Chenoweth tangle of garbage. Case shows that every case of 'civil resistance' involved 'non-violence' of the order of UNARMED riots with punches, rocks, and fires were involved. So indeed, civil resistance with non-violent marches, barricades, punches, rocks, and fires have contributed social progress change of decomposing mass-murder militarists governments. Slinging such desctructive false claims is likely to be effective at de-mobilizing people confused about acceptability of burning down unoccupied parts of a genocide and pollution funding bank and military station (cop station), for example, and to have very serious consequences against authors of that sort of garbage. Another problem about Chenoweth's methodology: they pretend intention of protesters of replacing a military hierarchist, heritage-based, fiction-book-based, racist pigs regime (asristocratic, 'demo'-oligarchic, duopolist) with another regime of the same type of garbage with another shuffle of names and addresses. Even a cursory review of literature and interviews with real protesters has shown a lot of demand for flat local networks run by local competent persons, usually referred to under contested name space of words like anarchism, direct democracy, co-operative societies, etc.