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Britons march in memory

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 15:00

Every year, Britons march in memory of everyone that died as a prisoner of the British state.

I don't use the word "custody" to describe this.

Plan to halve greenhouse gases criticized

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 14:45

*New Zealand plan to halve greenhouse gases criticised as an "accounting trick". *

It also depends on supposed "carbon offsets" that are not reliable.

Sanders is still fighting

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 14:45

Sanders is still fighting to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices ,

as the national medical services of more civilized countries do. He faces opposition from plutocratist Democrats as well as from (plutocratist and then some) Republicans.

Majid Khan's pseudo-trial

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 14:45

The jury in Majid Khan's pseudo-trial condemned the torture he experienced and called for him to receive clemency.

Allowing Majid Khan to testify about how the US tortured him served the cause of justice, but prosecuting him based on a confession that was tortured out of him is a dangerous precedent. Under the usual rules of the US legal system, his confession should have been considered inadmissable, the case against him should have been dropped, and he should have been released.

An analysis of global heating

jeudi 4 novembre 2021 à 14:30

An analysis of global heating world politics in terms of three pressure blocs.

I disagree with the author's final point. The crucial priority in decarbonizanion is not fairness, it is rapidity.

Going too slow, which the world's governments' current plans would to do, risks causing the collapse of civilization and the death of nearly everyone. Even if those deaths are distributed "fairly", that would still be a bad outcome. We must at all costs act fast enough to minimize the damage.