Agenda items

Now that consumer confidence, Hurricane Sandy and Mayor Bloomberg have settled the election, can we have a discussion about what to do about military spending;

drones; the assassination of American citizens; illegal military incursions into Pakistan; military adventures in Yemen, Bahrain, Somalia and now, it appears, Mali; Africom; the pumped up Drug War; militarization of US drug war interventions in Honduras, Guatemala, Columbia, et al; the brutal program of sanctions against Iran; the military "pivot" toward China; habeas corpus; Bradley Manning; expanded government secrecy and unprecedented actions against whistle-blowers; domestic government spying; continued the transfer of vast amounts of wealth into the hands of the financial giants without significant oversight or accountability; truly universal, truly affordable health care (Medicare for All); neoliberal judicial appointments and the general failure to make appointments at all; austerity as a budgetary priority; the need for a massive New Deal-style jobs program; the ambition to strike a "grand bargain" with McConnell, Cantor and Boehner that will put Social Security and Medicare "on the table;" and the ongoing control of the country by the corporations, the militarists and the industrial-security state?