It is foolhardy to eliminate precautions against Covid-19 with the Delta variant increasing the threat.

Some US states, ruled by the Republican death cult, are already seeing a new surge.

Mexico's supreme court has legalized marijuana.

The Chinese Communist Party presents a thoroughly censored history in which all the things it did badly have disappeared.

There are similar tendencies in other countries. For instance, Japan tends to deny war crimes, including kidnapping women from subject peoples and forcing them to be prostitutes.

Some Americans tend to deny ugly parts of US history, including slavery, stealing the land from the indigenous peoples, overthrowing democracies in other countries, and, since 2000, a number of wars that go on and on because victory is impossible.

But it is not forbidden in the US to talk about these things.

London cops arrested Extinction Rebellion protesters for dumping manure on the office of a newspaper that downplays the climate crisis.

Moving to renewable electricity depends on a lot of mining, and mining tends to raise both environmental concerns and human rights concerns.