Leading Marxist Scholar David Harvey on Trump, Wall Street, and Debt Peonage.

Harvey talks about problems caused by the internet, but (like most people) he doesn't see how a large part of that stems from from nonfree software. It's funny how people that criticize the power of business in other fields have a blind spot here.

China is setting up total face-recognition in Xinjiang. The rest of China will surely follow.

In India, every classroom will have a video camera, so that each child can be watched by the parents of the other children. And by who-knows-who-else.

I wish we were safe from this in the US.

How Democracies Die — sometimes in a sudden coup, sometimes gradually as the institutions of democracy are subverted by a minority.

The rich minority in the US have been working for decades to destroy our democracy, and it hasn't functioned as a democracy since 20 years ago under President Clinton. Now that people are awakening to this, we will see if there is anyway to take our country back from the plutocrats.

Food shortage in Venezuela is driving people to loot stores, even steal race horses and eat them.

Some citizens of North Carolina are investigating a company that flew prisoners for the Bush regime to other countries that would torture them.