Poverty Is Both a Political and a Moral Choice Made By the Powerful.

Decades of planning enabled right-wing plutocrats to take power in the US, so they could let most Americans "fall by the wayside".

As a result of their success, poor people in the US today have discarded the American Dream. They have learned that hard work won't get them a decent life in the US. Especially poor whites have given in to despair.

At the economic level, they are right. Hard work to make money won't get most poor Americans a decent life, because the rich take most of the value of their work.

However, there is another kind of hard work which could enable everyone to have a decent life: work to elect progressive leaders that will make the rich give back what they took.

Washington State has sued Comcast for tricking hundreds of thousands of customers into paying for nothing.

"Innovation" in the area of how to charge for services is something we should discourage, or even criminalize.

Reality Winner published the secret intelligence about Russian phishing at a US "election services" company because everyone knew that the the official internal whistleblower system is just a mousetrap to catch anyone that would even think of trying.

She will have an unfair trial, demonstrating why it is absurd to claim Snowden should return and face a similarly unfair trial.

Meanwhile, use of private companies for "election services" makes me worry on principle. How can we trust a company for that?

Putin has officially banned the only real opposition candidate from running against him.

Body cameras had a big influence on the behavior of thugs in LA.