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Refugees on hunger strike

jeudi 22 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Hundreds of refugees in Brussels have been on hunger strike for two months, demanding permission to live in Belgium.

Acknowledgment of Covid-19 deaths

jeudi 22 juillet 2021 à 02:00

India officially acknowledges 400 thousand deaths from Covid-19, but the actual number could be as high as 5 million.

Governments that don't respect truth feel a temptation to minimize the extent of death and sickness that Covid-19 causes. Republicans are the ultimate truth-disrespecters in the US, and indeed Florida officials understated the casualties in 2020.

Exploiting prisoners

jeudi 22 juillet 2021 à 02:00

US employers want to use prisoners and pay them a pittance rather than give their employees a raise.

Defending fossil fuels

jeudi 22 juillet 2021 à 02:00

G20 countries provided 3 trillion dollars of subsidy to fossil fuels since 2015 despite their stated intention to defend the climate.

Perhaps directed that intention into preparation of targets for 2050, so far in the future that it is purely an excuse. We need action, not targets.

Ringleaders still running

jeudi 22 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Haiti's elections minister says that the two suspects accused of organizing the murder of President Moise were probably not the ringleaders of the plot. He did not speculate about who the ringleaders might be.

As for whether those two suspects were actually involved in the plot, I have seen no information shedding light on that.