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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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The new NAFTA

dimanche 28 juillet 2019 à 02:00

The new NAFTA improves many specific points, but its fundamental effect is still to give businesses more power and democracy less power, and thus to transfer income from workers to business owners.

Transmountain tar sands pipeline

dimanche 28 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Trudeau gave Canada's approval to the Transmountain tar sands pipeline. This makes a mockery of the climate emergency declaration Trudeau made this week.

Husband's guns

dimanche 28 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Courtney Irby took her husband's guns to the thug department because he had been trying to kill her. The thugs charged her with burglary and jailed her.

Mao 2.0

dimanche 28 juillet 2019 à 02:00

China is now ruled by a networked totalitarianism, "Mao 2.0".

When the article says what "we" believed, the author should speak for himself. I never believed that capitalism would by nature bring democracy. Democracy is how the non-rich organize the state to protect them from the power of the rich.

Back when capitalists needed lots of factory workers, that gave the workers one advantage in their fight for democracy. But it did not guarantee victory. And now that advantage is gone.

Privatized probation officers

dimanche 28 juillet 2019 à 02:00

Privatized UK probation officers say bigger caseloads and unrealistic targets prevent them from following their professional standards.

This is the standard result of privatizing a government service. We should renationalize all privatized government services.