Everyone: call on CNN to add a progressive questioner in the Democratic debates.
If you call, please spread the word!

Hiring more non-white thugs does not protect blacks from being shot by thugs.

Maybe de-escalation training

In a wealthy neighborhood of Chicago, the life expectancy is 90. In a poor neighborhood, it is 60.

In other words, the plutocratic trickle-down that condemns people to poverty also condemns them to death.

The Chinese economic system serves Chinese people better than America's system serves Americans.

I disagree with one point: the article says not to blame US corporations for taking advantage of this system. Their political influence, their money, changed our system so that it serves them rather than us. They deserve to be blamed for that.

But even a corporation that done nothing beyond taking advantage of laws in ways that harm people still deserves our condemnation. "We are not violating laws" is not a defense for spreading suffering. The condemnation will provide the impetus to make them stop.

"Today, we know that that the techniques common to domestic abuse match those used by practically anyone who trades in captivity: kidnappers, hostage-takers, pimps, cult leaders."

Google and Facebook are campaigning for the US to adopt the sort of weak "data protection" laws that won't hamper surveillance capitalism much.

The concept of "ambient privacy" refers to what I have campaigned for years to protect: not having data collected about you.