It was pleasing to read in The Echo (3 January) that Bernie Sanders has not quietly gone away after being sidelined in the last US election.
His alarm that: ‘Democracy will not survive with the concentration of economic and political power’, controlled by just three Wall Street firms holding trillions in 95 per cent of S&P 500 companies, will no doubt fall on deaf ears.
And while governments worldwide spend trillions on weaponry, the ‘space race’ and token gestures on the development of existing and emerging alternate technology while the earth cooks, the future of humanity doesn’t look too rosy either.
Meanwhile our government with its fake environmental policies continues to approve new gas and coal for overseas markets and their lackey governments.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
