*Big tech accused of avoiding $2.8bn in tax to poorest countries.*

That is in addition to the far larger amount of tax cheating that they do to countries full of billionaire wealth, such as the US. All of these countries suffer from a lack of funds for governments to use for important purposes.

There is still a tendency in major US newspapers to hide from recognizing the ouster of President Morales, a year ago, as a coup.

That may relate to support for the coup from powerful elements in the US — whoever got the OAS to make a hasty and flawed claim of election fraud. This was done so well that at first I didn't realize it was false.

Then I saw an article which explained the election system and results and showed there was no fraud.

Proposing a salary cap for executives.

This is more complicated than it seems, because executives get paid through bonuses and stock options, and through jacking up the stock price on the shares they own. A serious scheme needs to deal with all of those.

Is a salary cap better than a 90% tax bracket?

(satire) *local undecided voter Jeff McNealy reportedly crouched inside a concrete drain pipe Thursday and remained completely silent as he waited for a convoy of political analysts and reporters to pass by on the road above.*

*The corporate criminal element has infused NPR with millions of dollars of donations.* And it shows.

I got fed up with NPR in the 1990s when I repeatedly heard one of All Things Considered's main commentators attack Bill Clinton from the right.