Sad to say it doesn’t seem to matter what we the people think about war and military spending.. President Trump doesn’t care that at least 70% of Americans are against the Iran War. Dick Cheney infamously replied, “So?” when he was told by a reporter that Americans opposed further escalation in the Iraq War.
It might matter what we thought if we lived in a democracy, but we don’t. We live in a kleptocracy, a kakistocracy.
First, we must recognize we’ve lost our say–that we don’t have a government that represents us–then we need to reform, re-create, or otherwise change that government.
Again, in the main, Americans don’t want militarism and wars–but there are other forces at work that do want these things, for their reasons, and they are in control.
Americans, I believe, don’t want more nuclear weapons. We’re getting them anyway. Read this article by Bill Hartung on the profiteers of Armageddon.
Americans, I believe, don’t want to spend between $1.5 trillion to $2.3 trillion each year on the Pentagon and war (read this POGO report on the true total U.S. military budget), but the warmongers and the military-industrial complex spend that money anyway.
As George Carlin said, the owners don’t care about you—at all! At all! At all! Your preferences, your needs, simply don’t matter. You have no say. To “our” leaders, the owners, inflation is good—just ask President Trump. Rising gas prices are great—for fossil fuel companies. Rising credit card balances and debt are healthy—for bankers.
We need to act. We need to change American-made destruction into American-made construction. We must become builders again, not destroyers.
The weapons they fund and build, the wars they prosecute, all the shredded human bodies, and for what? What morally abject fools the weapons makers and warmongers are. Why do we allow them to get away with it?
Until we regain our morality and our nerve, until we cast aside the kakistocrats and kleptocrats ruling us, we will remain stuck in the malaise of mindless militarism and endless war.
Withhold your consent. Run for office yourself. Organize and protest. Talk to your neighbors. Even write a blog. Whatever you can do to derail the war train rushing toward Armageddon is a good thing.
A Coverflex lançou em Portugal um módulo de transparência salarial que permite a qualquer empresa, mesmo sem ser cliente, analisar o seu gap salarial de género e obter uma primeira avaliação de conformidade em menos de cinco minutos. A ferramenta, baseada em inteligência artificial, é apresentada como resposta às novas exigências da diretiva europeia sobre transparência remuneratória.
O diagnóstico inicial é gratuito e, segundo a empresa, a plataforma transforma dados de recursos humanos e payroll numa leitura estruturada da situação salarial da organização. O sistema assinala grupos em conformidade e casos que exigem intervenção, apresentando ainda os fatores que explicam as diferenças identificadas.
O lançamento surge num contexto em que a Coverflex refere que 44% das organizações portuguesas não se sentem preparadas para as obrigações da Diretiva Europeia de Transparência Salarial, cujo prazo de transposição terminou a 7 de junho de 2026. No documento, a empresa cita ainda uma diferença salarial de 12,5% em Portugal, que sobe para 21,8% no setor privado, e sublinha que o quadro legislativo nacional continua por definir.
Segundo Rui Carvalho, cofundador e chief operating officer da Coverflex, o objetivo é ajudar as empresas a organizar de forma contínua a sua estrutura salarial, em vez de recorrerem a análises pontuais feitas à pressa. Já Inês Odila, country manager da empresa em Portugal, defende que a ferramenta foi desenhada para acelerar o acesso a dados e preparar as organizações para as novas regras europeias.
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