Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor.

He suggests that we judge US wages by comparing them with wages in other countries, which implies a great reduction in US wages. That's an admission of what we figured the US plutocrats want.

As the US directs ever more resources into "security", which includes massive surveillance and war, it neglects the activities that could really make the world more secure.

Avoiding global heating disaster is one of those activities. The Pentagon recognizes that the effects of global heating will cause "instability" (wars, mass migration, etc.), but Congress and the President do not pay due attention to this.

Republican leaders met and made a specific plan to sabotage Obama in every way.

However, their sabotage campaign is broader than that. They also try to sabotage everything that contributed to women's rights, the wellbeing of poor Americans. or even energy efficiency.

Obama is easy for the friends of the plutocrats to sabotage, since he never tries very hard to oppose them. A real friend of most Americans would have used the Republicans' sabotage plan to attack them. But since he won't do that, it is up to us to do it.

House Republicans have removed food stamps from the farm bill entirely.

The US is attacking world standards of human rights in order to get Snowden.

It is also denouncing Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch for standing up for Snowden's human rights, and for what he did for everyone else's human rights.

Obama replied to Snowden's statement by rebuking Putin for repressing human rights organizations in Russia.

That is a valid criticism. Putin's regime is not in general a supporter of whistleblowers. It did not just kill whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky in prison; it put him on trial after death. (I am sure Snowden wishes he could go straight to South America without needing Russian help.)

However, that doesn't excuse what Obama is doing to punish an American hero. "Better than Putin" is no standard for judging our own government.