Sanders is First to Sign 'Fix Democracy' Pledge Rejecting Fossil Fuel Cash.

The Entrepreneurial State: states such as the US, Germany and UK have made a big difference by actively promoting long-term innovation; today's strip-the-state corporations prevent such long-term activity by evading taxes.

We should not make the mistake of making innovation as such our highest goal. When the richest get to direct which innovations we use, they will do so for their good, not ours.

When we do need progress, the effects of illegitimate plutocratic governance can be seen when people foolishly wish that billionaires would invest in the research.

In the 1960s, when the US still made the rich pay substantial taxes, the state funded important research.

In the UK, old and disabled people are now essentially isolated in their homes, never seeing anyone. The activities where they used to talk with other people have been eliminated, along with the transport that would have brought them there.

People who have few social contacts tend to die sooner, so I guess this is a way of getting rid of them.

US thugs now examine all sorts of records associated with a person's name or address, to estimate how "dangerous" the person is and whether to send a military-style team to break down per door.

(I used Marge Piercy's third-person singular possessive form "per", which is a gender-neutral alternative to "her". I absolutely refuse to use "they" in singular.)

Why did Juniper Networks add the NSA-sabotaged key generation code, which was already suspect, when it already had a safe method?