Bolivians don't trust the coup-installed government to run a free and fair election.

To the extent that elites collaborate globally to maintain their power over their countries, we must reject the idea of "national interest" vis-a-vis other countries and globalize our campaigns for promoting democracy and ending poverty.

*Californians are turning to vending machines for safer water. Are they being swindled?*

Whether or not any given brand of bottled water is a swindle in the narrow sense, to give up on tap water and resort normally to bottled water is being swindled in a broader sense.

*Of course Facebook and Google want to ‘solve’ social problems. They’re hungry for our data.*

Iranians protested the rise in gasoline price by blocking streets. The state responded with tear gas, bullets, and blocking the internet. Estimates are that around 70 people were killed.

We must end subsidies for fossil fuels — global heating disaster threatens to kill billions of people a few decades from now. We would be fools to delay that for any reason whatsoever. Thus, governments need to develop a way to do that without short-term suffering for the poor.