The Silicon Valley business system directs investors towards sex toys with digital surveillance; they have little interest in actual improvements in sex toys.

Facebook says it's ok to take note of useds' phone calls and texts, since it hurried them into formally giving "consent".

Companies that do digital surveillance are expert at the manufacture of consent. What this proves is that formal consent is not a valid excuse for surveillance.

Many foreign aid projects in Africa spend millions on well-intentioned projects that have a disastrous fatal flaw.

The same was true in Afghanistan and Iraq, in the past decade.

Scotland Yard admits that its thugs almost surely sent union organizers' personal records to a construction industry blacklist.

Sanders warns that the dismissal of Shulkin as head of the Veterans' Administration is likely to be a preparation for privatizing parts of it.

Privatization of government services typically means unaccountability for abuses, as well as expensive, lousy service.