(satire) *Rainforest Tree Remains Very Still In Hopes That Bulldozer Will Lose Interest And Drive Away.*

Biden is changing the US industrial policy. The old one gives handouts to businesses for the sake of billionaire's enrichment. The new one must reject that practice.

The Energy Charter Treaty, a business-supremacy treaty, threatens to make European countries pay hundreds of billions of dollars in "compensation" for taking explicit action to cut down on fossil fuels.

When a treaty puts the business interests of private parties over the vital needs of society, that must make the treaty invalid.

*A Former Lobbyist Explains How the Privatization Movement Is Trying to End Public Education.* Its goal is to make parents pay for education of their children. Parents with low income would have to beg or borrow for elementary school.

The article refers to "libertarians" and their policies, but that term is misleading. They are not about liberty; the aim of those policies is to enrich the wealthy at the expense of the poor: that is, dooH niboR. I refer to those people and policies as "antisocialist".

A few decades ago, the IMF bullied many poor countries to eliminate their public education programs, in accord with the then-prevailing "neoliberal" economics. How did that view of economics come to prevail? By means of contributions to academia from various rich people who saw it as a long-term method to obtain laws for dooH niboR.

*Poll Finds Majority of US Voters Back Green New Deal and Want Lawmakers to Co-Sponsor Resolution.*

If the US had an effective democracy, the strong backing from voters would lead to passage within a few years. However, a plutocratic system can reject it for decades.