The bully's tariffs caused inflation to rise in August.

I am not a supporter of the free-trade ideology, that gives capital the power to bully and dominate countries that don't bow down and obey. Tariffs can help a country build up its domestic industry, provided they are used in a well-designed plan.

Of course, that is not what the bully did. His goal was to make other countries' governments submit to him.

Various former officials reproach the US government for choosing killing the people in a boat in the Caribbean, in disregard of US law, rather than arresting them and perhaps charging them with crimes (supposing there was evidence they were committing any crimes).

Bolsonaro and seven of his highest officials have been convicted of trying to launch a coup.

The plan included assassinating the just-reelected former president Lula, and others too. It failed because the army and air force commanders refused to join it.

Bolsonaro's followers are pleasing for the government to pardon him in the name of "peace", but the right-wing supporters of racist nationalism and absolutism never make peace — they never stop scheming and lying to take power,

A suggestion to make it a crime to publish output from an LLM without explicitly labeling it as such.

This could be a good idea, provided it avoids the marketing campaign of calling LLMs "intelligence" and referring to the output as "content" as if that were a sort of commodity.

Arguing that Britain's situation allows it to resist being bullied into surrender to rich lenders.

The article also argues that the Euro and its rules are responsible for France's current mass poverty.