The Taliban have banned contraceptives in Afghanistan — perhaps some kinds and not all.

The Christian Taliban that threaten the US have similar goals, and sooner or later will try to impose similar laws in the states they control.

Sanders proposes Robert Reich, or union leader Sara Nelson, for secretary of labor.

Google gave publicity to a software project designed by Aramco employees to use Google servers to find and repair methane leaks. Did Google do good, or harm?

Repairing the leaks is good but small. Helping Aramco distract attention from its far bigger activities, which accelerate global heating, is harmful. Which one is more important?

The fact that Google specifically acted to get publicity for Aramco's token emissions reductions, which don't compensate for its emissions increases, suggests that this is misleading greenwashing, for Google as well as Aramco.

The article linked to describes other ways in which Google's misrepresents its assistance to Aramco and other planet roasters to deny that they exacerbate global heating.

Thugs repressing protesters at Raytheon's office in Arlington, Virginia, told the protesters that Raytheon owns the sidewalk so no one can protest there.

In the meeting that they protested, all elements of the military-industrial-media complex with so thoroughly mixed up that the distinction becomes artificial.

A right-wing billionaire donates to Republican candidates first of all, but as a forward line of defense he donates to plutocratist Democrats also.

He also supports fascists in Israel.