The Solomon Islands is moving step by step towards autocracy. Now it has announced it will ban foreign journalists based on what they write.

"Racial profiling" means applying laws to people in a prejudiced way based on their race. A central part of that unjust practice is that the person acting has real, direct power over others. To apply the term to journalists' writing, even racist writing, is twisting its meaning.

Racial profiling can't be seen directly in one instance; it takes a set of instances to see such a pattern, and then it's a judgment call. To use this as a criterion to admit or exclude a journalist makes no sense — unless it's simply an excuse for arbitrary censorship.

The movement towards autocracy began when the government made a "security" deal with China. I suspect that is no coincidence.

The corrupter's White House officials tried to "bully" the FDA to authorize hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, counter to the evidence.

Amazon warehouse workers have walked out of the job, saying that the wages are too low to live on, and that management is demanding that they work ever harder and faster, discarding safety precautions.

For more reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon, see amazon.html.

This article asserts that Dugin, the apparent target of the car bomb that instead killed his daughter, is a fierce right-wing critic of Putin and has demanded a much harsher war against Ukraine.

I can't have full confidence in what CNN reports about this, any more than I can have full confidence in the rest of the mainstream media. But I don't think Russian government agents would assassinate someone for being more Putinite than Putin himself. It does not sound like he is Putin's enemy.

Argentines are protesting, demanding the government help them obtain food.

As it generally does, the International Monetary Fund is "helping" Argentina pay its debts by limiting government spending to help people in difficulty. In effect, the IMF converts supposedly sovereign countries into colonies of the foreign banks, with their governments focused on extracting money for them.

This is disappointing, since the deal with the IMF was supposedly a new form, designed to avoid this result.