Tories dislike raising taxes on the rich, so they propose to raise taxes on the poor instead.

US sanctions' real effect on a country tends to be harsher than the nominal rules. Sanctions on Cuba permit delivery of medicine, but DHL returned a delivery of insulin citing "US sanctions."

US sanctions on Iraq, before 2003, caused a shortage of medicine there, even though nominally medicine was permitted. I think sanctions blocked Iraq from paying for medicine.

Here's some propaganda intended to convince you that having a tattoo that is a copy is theft and you should be terribly ashamed of it.

You can tell it is propaganda from its use of the propaganda term "IP". That is a bogus concept that spreads confusion whenever it is used. Copyright really exists, but "IP" does not.

Having a copied a tattoo is no more shameful than having a copied book, video or music recording. Copying is not theft!

I can't understand how anyone could do something so rash as to get a tattoo. Don't you understand your tastes will be different a few years from now? If you like a design, put it on paper, not on your skin.

Counting the cost of environmental damage (including global heating) and the medical harm to the people that produce the food and eat the food, food in the US costs three times what we actually pay for it.

If this were simply a matter of having the state pay part of the cost rather than individual consumers, that might not be a bad thing. But these costs are not mere money. They are damage that we can't sustain.

Mainstream media have exaggerated the protests in Cuba while downplaying the contribution of US sanctions to Cuba's problems.

Cuba represses dissent. It punished dissident Oswaldo Payá by putting him into a menial job and harassing him; it punished some of his supporters with prison. Some years later, the government arranged to kill him. But Payá did not want to hand Cuba over to the empire of multinational business. I expect that that's what the US government aims for with its sanctions.