*Airstrikes leave no safe place for Palestinians in southern Gaza.*

In Cop28, the US is supporting the weak voluntary system for carbon reduction. We need to speed this up, and mandatory reductions will do that.

*Before neoliberalism can destroy our lives, it must first convince us that we are all disconnected. "There is no such thing as society," isn't just an empty slogan: it's a weapon for dismantling the democratically accountable structures that can stand against industrial tyrants.*

Lately neoliberalism has suffered some setbacks in the US from citizens in solidarity, with partial US government support for us.

Enshittification of the important network services was also the consequence of US government acceptance of monopolies, which had continued since Reagan established it and Clinton endorsed it.

Blocking new mergers and some of the nasty actions of monopolies is necessary but not sufficient. We need to restore the competition that we used to have, by breaking up the monopolies.

My tax system for multinational companies is designed to pressure them to break themselves up.

Amazon locks in customers by getting them to pay in advance for "free shipping". Then it makes sellers raise their prices so they can pay to "qualify for prime", and to do that, they have to charge even higher prices in any other store.

Robert Reich: today's billionaires are undermining the sense that we are all "in it together" so that making society better off tends to help us all. The result is the disintegration of society.

Arguing about a "free market" for businesses is a distraction from the question of whether our markets are fair to the non-rich.