(satire) *Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians.*

How Kissinger stretched rational Realpolitik into irrational amorality. He did not appreciate the long-term importance of supranational aspects of our world: respect for human rights, respect for the rules of war, respect for truth, and protecting the ecosphere in which we all live.

Robert Reich debunks the myth that an ideal "free market" would exist in the absence of government. Each market is based on rules, and in the absence of a government to make the rules, the rules are determined by the power of the strongest.

*The so-called “free market” is a myth that prevents us from examining [frequent, small] rule changes and asking whom they serve. The myth is therefore highly useful to those who do not want such an examination and who don’t want the public to understand how power is exercised and by whom.*

*[US] Private Prison Firms Set To Cash In On Immigrant Surveillance Boom.*

Activists say that governments are giving up on trying to stop mass atrocities.

Power-bloc rivalries get in the way, as each side in a local dispute tends to get sponsorship from some power bloc.

I wonder if power blocs can make deals -- "We'll do X to help end the mass murder in country A if you'll do Y to help end the mass murder in country B."