This and that for your Thursday reading.

– Linda McQuaig writes about the need for international solidarity in responding to the corruption and aggression of Donald Trump. Stephen Maher notes that there are important lessons for Canada in Trump’s Venezualan coup. And the Economist points out that Canada’s military is necessarily planning to respond to U.S. hostility – even as the two largest parties in Parliament treat it as something to be minimized or welcomed. 

– Virginia Heffernan argues that the most important reality of the Epstein scandal is the culture of elite impunity which continues to mutate and spread. And Roger Hallam discusses how the capital class is choosing a death project over any sustainable alternative which might reduce its control over the general public. 

– Faine Greenwood discusses the increasing number of people who see reality itself as irrelevant compared to online slop and propaganda. And Peter Smith comments on the dangers of social isolation to health, well-being and community. 

– Finally, a new McGill study finds that any spin about crime being caused by supervised consumption sites is a myth – meaning that the attack against harm reduction has no effect other than to exacerbate the human toll of the drug crisis. 

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