"Just-in-time" scheduling of hourly workers means that their part-time job rules them every hour of the week, although they only get paid for a fraction of those hours.

I think that businesses should be required to pay half wages for every hour that an hourly worker is on call to work with less than a week's notice.

Witnesses recorded immediately after Michael Brown was shot dead said that he had his hands up.

The mainstream US media describe cutting workers' pensions as "responsible". If the government is forced to break promises, break promises to the rich before promises to the non-rich.

Canada's government has, in effect, subjugated Canada to Chinese investors (including the Chinese state) by allowing them to sue secretly to demand changes in Canadian government policies.

This includes extremely dangerous pipeline plans.

To subject one's country to such a treaty constitutes treason, in my view. A new Canadian government should abrogate the treaty.

The Taliban are advancing in parts of Afghanistan.

It's sad, but predictable. The Afghan government's army doesn't have the motivation needed to resist the Taliban. Afghans who oppose the Taliban aren't motivated to fight as much as the Taliban are motivated to fight.

We could continue to keep the Taliban out with permanent US intervention. We could do that for as long as the US has resources to do it, which won't be forever (in a few decades, global heating will be causing disaster in the US). But permanent victory against the Taliban depends on Afghans. We could continue war there until we go broke, but at the end the Taliban would come back unless Afghans opposed to the Taliban.