Democrats in Congress propose to compensate the black soldiers in World War II (actually their descendents) for dening them the education benenfits offered to white soldiers.

Home renters in Catalonia are organizing to fight evictions.

Canada agreed to pay rent to indigenous groups for mining and logging on land that they ceded, but only paid them a pittance. Now it will have to pay them billions.

This is fair, and I hope the indigenous peoples manage it so as to make a lasting improvement in their lives.

However, it ight have the ironic effect of convincing them to lobby for mining and logging. ;-{.

One cause of inflation in the US today is that there is too little competition to hold prices down.

We need to break up the enormous companies that four decades of unrestrained merger have produced. I suggest a way to do this via taxes.

*Belarus threatens to cut gas deliveries to EU if sanctioned over border crisis.*

As long as the EU is dependent on gas from Russia and Belarus, they have the advantage all the time. This is an important secondary reason for the EU to build renewable generation capacity at double time. Fortunately that's exactly what the EU needs to do anyway.