Establishment politicians continue to pretend that the US debt is a serious problem. It's a great excuse for dooH niboR policies, such as cutting Social Security and Medicare.

A Perpetual Killing Field: South Sudan, where civil war never ends.

The western powers pressured Sudan's Islamist dictatorship to let the south have independence. But I have never seen an accusation that they exploited or oppressed people in South Sudan. The disaster does not seem to be caused by any western crime. However, I suspect that the civil war is fueled by oil exports.

Groups of Nuer and Dinka were perpetually raiding each other in the 1930s when Evans-Pritchard studied them. They stole cattle, and they took prisoners and sometimes killed them but not always. They used traditional weapons, not submachine guns, and neither group was united under overall leaders. It seems that things are much worse now.

An interview with Bernie Sanders.

I never agreed 100% with Sanders, but 100% agreement with a candidate is too much to ask for. I agreed with him on the most important issues, and I saw his integrity and deep thinking; that was reason enough to support his campaign. I hope to have another chance to do so in 2020.

However, I am unpersuaded by his arguments to support Clinton now. I don't believe that Clinton will do the good things that he thinks she will do. More deeply, I reject the idea of voting for bad candidates because their principal opponent is worse. I decided in 2007 that Clinton was no progressive, not someone I could vote for. That her opponent this time is even worse does not make her acceptable.

I voted this week for Jill Stein for president.

I am looking for people to modify Etherpad to distribute its Javascript code marked clearly as free software, adding free licenses marked for LibreJS to notice, and source pointers if necessary. See etherpad-lite.

Please write to me if you do this job, so I can stop looking for someone.

I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a New York City subway station without running its nonfree Javascript code. The recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant of Firefox). It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to work.