Ralph Nader: the right to sue big companies for injuries they cause, and get damages enough to make them avoid injuring people, is getting chipped away step by step by courts and legislatures.

*Covid Killed More Americans in 2021 Than 2020, and the GOP Death Cult Is Mostly to Blame.* That's some 390,000 in 2021 and some 385,000 in 2020.

The EU is considering funding a new gas pipeline to fuel a power plant in Malta. This should be an outrage -- how dare the EU consider doing something so dangerous?

This power plant may be linked to the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

I hope her murderers, including those who plotted the murder, are caught and convicted, and they should not be allowed to profit from their crime. But when it comes to whether to subsidize a fossil-fuel pipeline, we need to focus on the main issue: building fossil fuel infrastructure endangers everyone. This pipeline can kill thousands of people, and help kill millions.

Suppose that there had been no assassination and Ms Caruana Galizia were still alive. Would that make it acceptable to subsidize fossil fuel infrastructure? Surely not.

Sudan's military government agreed to release political prisoners and share power with the civilian government again.

The article explains how this doesnt mean that all's well in Sudan, but it's at least a step in the right direction.

The UAE has used Interpol for revenge against political "crimes". This is additional reason to be concerned about the possibility that a UAE official might become president of Interpol.

The problem with Interpol is systemic: other countries have used Interpol for repression of dissidents, because it is effective for that purpose. It seems to me that avoiding the election of one potentially bad president is not enough to address the problem. Its system for handling red notices needs modification so that other countries will think twice about a suspect named in one, rather than reflexively arresting per.