Vaccination requirements for for group events, and restaurants, substantially increased vaccination in many countries.

The Department of Justice has promised not to be quite as lenient with crimes committed by corporations. This article reports and gives advice.

Most news publishers, universities, businesses, and government agencies avoid the term "corporate crime" -- it is impolite to suggest that laws be applied to corporations. They replace the term with euphemisms.

Customers of Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Citibank: call on them to stop investing in climate destruction.

You could also move your money to a smaller bank that invests in local businesses and housing. Those banks do lots of bad things, including helping to provoke the economic crisis of 2008, and defrauding customers.

How the US is gradually murdering Julian Assange.

I must rebuke the author for lumping together the corrupt dictator Ngo Dinh Diem, who served the US badly because of his corruption and repressive leanings, with people who opposed the US or its economic empire.

I rebuke him even more for equating Biden with the wrecker. Biden is no Sanders, but he is trying to save the US from the out-and-out fascism and supports changes for the better, blocked by Manchin and Sinema as well as the Republicans.

But then, Hedges says there is no difference between Sanders and the wrecker. Hedges takes an extreme view of politics: either you're rebelling against the US government or a toady. I don't agree.

The US fumbled badly in the "Democracy Summit" when Taiwan's minister Audrey Tang displayed a map showing the democratic countries and tyrannical countries in the far east.

It's evidently pertinent and important, so if you invite various people to speak about democracy and the far east, someone's likely to bring it up. The US in effect set a trap for itself and fell in.

Audrey Tang also advocates free software within the government of Taiwan. I hope she does not get punished for being the occasion for embarrassment.