Thousands of Brazilians protested outside Congress, which is busy ignoring them to amend the constitution for crushing austerity.

Big cuts in state spending tend to lead to economic collapse. Maybe that will inspire the political changes needed to reverse austerity.

[Union president] Chuck Jones Is a Better President Than Donald Trump Will Ever Be.

Jones is receiving death threats from Trump's attack dogs, who he trained in the campaign to attack whoever Trump insults.

This seems to indicate that Trump aims to destroy unions. Unions are workers' principal real defense.

The UK foreign minister, Boris Johnson, is considered a semi-Trump buffoon, but he was right on target when criticizing Salafi Arabia.

The US government, and US states, are paying almost 100 billion in ransoms to companies so that they won't move jobs to other states or other countries.

The states can put a stop to companies' practice of playing one against the other, by forming a union against the companies. I've suggested calling it the United States of America.

Stopping this sort of competition with other countries would require a treaty — the Make Companies Pay Taxes treaty. It would be a treaty to assure state supremacy over business, the opposite of a business supremacy treaty.

It is important to ridicule Trump, because he has trouble handling it.