The UK NHS is so underfunded that its staff shortages endanger patients.

The reason the NHS is underfunded is plutocratic refusal to tax businesses and the rich; they demand to be subsidized instead.

Seven potential disasters that could result from fighting PISSI.

It appears to me that we must accept sectarian partition of Iraq. It has, de facto, already happened, and accepting it is the only way to convince Iraqi Sunnis they can protect themselves without PISSI.

PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

Raising the minimum wage to match what it was in the 1960s would save 1.7 million Americans from needing public assistance.

A new leak of the part of the draft Trans-Pacific Partnership shows that the US is pushing mass murder in the form of tightened patent power on medicines.

This treaty does harm already, although it is still a draft, simply by using the propaganda term "intellectual property" to lump together various unrelated laws.

To repeat that term is to boost the confusion — and we don't have to repeat it. Since I identified the term as a confusion-spreader, ten years ago, I have not used it once.

I will say that the TPP negotiators put the bogus label "intellectual property" on this chapter but I will not use the term myself.

In Australia, government policy makes millenials poor and the rest of society blames them for it. Many of them, not realizing the fault isn't theirs, are going crazy.

The first step in not going crazy is to realize that the injustice is imposed by the state. The second step is to unite to kick out plutocracy. If the rich were not getting richer, there would be enough for the aged and the young.