Many US workers are surveilled so much in their work that the stress is making their lives hell.

Monroe Bird was shot and paralyzed for no reason by a security guard, but what killed him was the lousy US medical system.

The UK increase in minimum wage (which falls short of a "living wage") is far too small to compensate for the welfare cuts.

In addition, only a fraction of those hurt by the welfare cuts will see a rise in wages.

Taxing renewable energy like nonrenewable is "saving green pennies, but spending nuclear pounds."

The Soviet Union built and tested a semi-automatic "doomsday machine" system for automatic launch of a retaliatory missile strike.

The Perimetr system was a response to the US's deployment of missiles that threatened first-strike destruction of Soviet missiles. Deploying those missiles was a far more aggressive and foolhardy act.

We now know that the doomsday machine was inherent in those missiles: even without a Soviet retaliation, they would have triggered a nuclear winter that would have destroyed civilization (and maybe humanity too).