The troll's talk about sabotaging US medical insurance has made insurance companies jittery, so they have already started planning large increases in prices.

Eva Gollinger, who exposed the US role in the coup against Chavez, analyzes the developments in Venezuela.

Melting ice tends to activate volcanoes; this is happening in Alaska and Iceland. Meanwhile, scientists have just discovered 91 more volcanoes under the Antarctic ice sheet.

A plan to curb the "addiction to growth": "Curbing advertising, taxing carbon, a basic income, and a shorter work week".

I think we must also do something to curb the ability of billionaires to compete to outdo the others.

A report argues that the main drivers of inequality are certain government policies: taxation, trade, regulation, public subsidies, and expenditures.

It is clear that retraining people to take different jobs can help only a small fraction of the unemployed and the 50% of employed Americans stuck in Mcjobs.

However, technology is also an important factor. If automation eliminates 10% of jobs over a decade, there is no way that most of those people will find anything but Mcjobs, if even that.

Globalization is a crucial factor, but perhaps at a deeper level. Globalization is the driver of trade policy. Globalization-oriented trade policy gives businesses the power to knock down regulations that protects us from them, demand public subsidies, and force cuts in expenditure by dodging taxes.

The business-supremacy treaties are at the root of this.

James Damore's internal Google memo was "not an unhinged rant", but it cited irrelevant scientific generalities to advocate giving sexism free rein inside Google. Here's a clear explanation.

There is good reason to fire anyone who posts an unhinged sexist rant within a company. Such rants harass, directly. I don't see that it is necessary to fire people for non-ranting postings that propose a sexist policy. The proposal itself does no harm unless it is adopted. Wouldn't firm rejection of the proposal suffice?

Reading well-veiled fallacies can be exasperating, but that is not the same as being harassed.

Once Damore had been fired, he jumped into bed with right-wing extremists that are known for unhinged rants.

Perhaps he wrote the internal memo with careful restraint, aiming to persuade Google staff, but now shows his true nature.

I can envision the possibility that a firm rejection, without firing, would have kept him restrained and avoided helping the bigots.