Anti-pipeline protesters are still being followed and harassed as suspected "terrorists" a year after the unwarranted investigation was formally shut down.

They think the US government is catering to Transcanada, the pipeline company.

It is Obama's duty to disallow the Keystone XL planet-roaster, and the fact that he has not done so leads me to think he is planning to approve it whenever he thinks he won't take heat for it. The heat will follow, a few decades from now.

The TSA has mistreated millions of Americans looking for weapons, but it can't find weapons on passengers' bodies.

The TSA was sloppy in checking the backgrounds of airport workers.

TSA stands for Theater of Security Agency.

Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny.

I disagree with him on one important point. Voting can make big changes. As recently as the 1970s, the US government passed laws that greatly restricted business, in response to public demand (for instance, to curb air and water pollution). Plutocracy is a condition, not the nature of democracy.

Some US cities have provided housing to all their homeless people, or at least to all the homeless veterans.

These programs show it can be done, but we will never do the whole job if we leave it up to each city to decide whether to do it or not.

Housing the homeless veterans is only part of the job. Veterans are particularly likely to be homeless, because of the harm that being in combat did to them. We ought to provide housing to them when they need it — and to all other Americans, as well.

The G7 countries agreed to end fossil fuel use — by 2100. They are planning to turn off the gas, but only after the biosphere is burnt.

2/3 of the public, in 79 countries, want the Paris climate summit to do "whatever it takes" to curb global heating. The difference between this, and what the G7 have agreed to, is stark.

Civilization may not make it to 2100 if we don't end fossil fuel use much sooner than that. And it has to include more than the G7 countries.