The prime responsibility of the state is to plan and manage, but plutocratic states refuse to face the responsibility.

Australians have privately organized a mass battery purchase to advance home battery technology. The state should have done this. In fact, I proposed such a thing in a legislative hearing in Massachusetts a year ago. Ten years ago, states were doing the same sort of thing for solar power cells.

The neoliberal ideology is both an excuse for this refusal and a way of covering up contrary actions. Every market is regulated; a market can't exist without some regulations or other. The market mechanism could be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, if regulated with a carbon tax. If the state instead subsidizes fossil fuels, then it's managing society so as to run off the carbon cliff; but it can pretend that "the invisible hand is doing this -- we are only watching."

Neoliberal ideology is also an excuse to cut taxes to the point where all spending projects are impossible, again denying responsibility for the policies that are adopted.

Turkish [Thugs] Use Teargas Against Gay Activists in Istanbul.

Snowden's lawyer will launch a new campaign for Obama to pardon Snowden.

The daughter of a murdered man is a leader in the campaign to keep the death penalty abolished in Nebraska.

Sanders said he will vote for Clinton, to stop Trump.

It would take more than that for me ignore the bad things about Clinton.