When thugs lead businesses such as United Airlines to expect the their help in confrontations with the public, they encourage companies to treat the public harshly.

United's policy decision to order Dr Dao off the plane to make room for a pilot was wrong, but it was the thugs that started the violence on that day.

However, at a deeper level, it is the political influence businesses have gained over what should be democracy is the reason that thugs are there encouraging businesses to use thugs to intimidate the public.

The War on Painkillers: Florida has sentenced thousands of old people to long prison terms (basically, life in prison) for selling a handful of painkiller pills.

The US should change its institutions to avoid further "wars of choice", since they are likely to destroy other countries and could conceivably destroy the US.

The troll is doing exactly what is likely to start another war in the Middle East, exactly what will make it a disaster, and exactly what will make peace impossible.

Is it possible that that is not a coincidence? That some influential interests in the US desire exactly that?

The troll's business partners in Indonesia are trying to overthrow President Widodo.

The Pentagon denies the facts in order to refuse to acknowledge that it bombed a mosque in Syria.