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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Urgent: Pass a Shareholders United act

mercredi 17 février 2016 à 01:00

US citizens: Call on your state legislature to pass a Shareholders United act to limit corporations' political spending.

Getting a prisoner out of Guantánamo

mercredi 17 février 2016 à 01:00

UN human rights experts say Australia violated David Hicks's human rights by jailing him as part of a deal with the US.

The deal was to get him out of Guantánamo, where the US was violating his human rights. Is it right to agree to violate someone's rights in order to get a worse violator to stop? And if you do, should you break the deal? It is a difficult question.

Ban on imports made with slave labor

mercredi 17 février 2016 à 01:00

The US has banned imports of products made with slave labor.

I expect that some companies or countries will try to use trade treaties to make the US repeal this law, as they have done with other important laws to protect something important.

Turkey arrests journalist

mercredi 17 février 2016 à 01:00

Turkey arrested a journalist for interviewing possible PKK supporters.

Puerto Rico

mercredi 17 février 2016 à 01:00

Puerto Rico is turning itself into a tax shelter for billionaires to parasitize the US.

Due to the failure of the US to rescue Puerto Rico from horrible debt, I must admit that Puerto Rico is acting based on provocation. Still, the competition to bow down to billionaires will hurt all of us, except the billionaires. We must put an end to it.