The global economy has been directed towards enriching plutocrats. Someone becomes a new billionaire every other day, while the poorer half of humanity have gained no wealth in a year.

Puerto Rico's governor is using the hurricane as an excuse to privatize the electric grid.

Privatization sales often bring in far less than what the sold asset is worth. I suspect this is because the officials who favor privatization are happy to enrich plutocrats an the expense of the public — in other words, that they want the state to give the plutocrats a good deal, rather than to get a good deal for itself.

11 countries including Australia, Japan and Canada have agreed to the TPP, which I think means they have subjected themselves to the ISDS clause ("I Sue Democratic States"). I presume it is still included, because I'd expect I would have heard if it were removed.

I am sorry for those countries.

A thug chief in Pakistan is suspected of murdering 250 people that he assumed were guilty of something.

A court has ruled that the song "We Shall Overcome" is not copyrighted.