Americans are recognizing that their lives are getting worse and that government policies are responsible.

An EU diplomat tried to deliver tents to Palestinians whose homes had been demolished by Israeli soldiers. More soldiers attacked them, and took away the tents and the truck they were brought in.

Incredibly, the Israeli government condemns the diplomat for punching a soldier in the face after they had thrown her to the ground.

And they did the same thing again to a group of other diplomats, and to the Red Cross.

These arrogant bastards think they are entitled to do anything they like to anyone, then condemn even the slightest resistance.

Here's what Gush Shalom has to say about it.

A UN agency urges decriminalization of sex work so as to end transmission of diseases.

In principle, I see nothing wrong with requiring use of condoms or requiring that sex workers get regular tests for diseases they might spread. It is normal to have safety standards on various kinds of work, including food preparation, for the sake of public health.

How could this do any harm? Only if there are people who desperately need to do sex work; but that implies the state is failing to take care of people who are poor and ill.

Microrefuges may enable some cold-adapted plant species to avoid extinction due to global heating.

Whether they can hang on depends on how much global heating occurs. If the Earth heats up by 8C on the average, in the Arctic it will be more.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot says that that women in her prison are forced to work 17 hours a day and get only 4 hours of sleep.