Peru's suppression forces have killed 20 protesters, generally by shooting them. This caused protests to spread. People demand that Congress resign for new elections, but Congress refuses.

US right-wingers have danced with fascism and Nazism since the 1930s and have only occasionally been afraid to show it.

Cinderella as a joke on Louis XIV's fancy for glass.

Joseph Stiglitz: *The Road to Fascism*

* Growing hardship is all but assured in 2023, and it will provide even more fertile ground for dangerous demagogues.*

The UN-brokered truce in Yemen could lead to an end to the war.