The Russian troll army was very clever in using US racism to convince blacks not to vote.

That was the Republicans' first line of defense against black voters. The second line was voter suppression, and the third, gerrymandering.

The Russian ad campaign exploited a problem that the US really has: plutocratist politicians tend to be mostly interested in the voters only at election time. That is mostly true but not 100% true, and racism is one of the injustices that plutocratists Democrats do make some efforts to reduce — but only in the ways that the banksters don't veto.

Public banks could fund the Green New Deal.

12 Reasons Labor Should Demand a Green New Deal.

(satire) … the Trump administration launched a human rights investigation Monday into the Senate’s harsh treatment of Saudi ruler Mohammad bin Salman.

Millions of children in the US and UK are growing up in poverty. This is a political choice, imposed by plutocratist government.

The stress caused by poverty provokes violence, mainly against women and children. The stress itself can scar children for life.

Arresting Huawei's executive may spare Canada a new business-supremacy treaty.

The article is based on, and takes for granted, the "free trade" ideology, which is used as an excuse for governments to compete to give business more power (and the people less).

An existing business-supremacy treaty between Canada and China may be the reason it is desperate to export more tar sands oil.