Proposing that Australia limit the level of salt in certain kinds of prepared foods, since the high level of salt in some of them could be responsible for hundreds of deaths per year.

There is no proposal to forbid people from eating too much salt. Rather, the intention is to alter a system that tends to lead many people to eat too much salt without realizing it.

Timothy Garton Ash: *Unless Joe Biden stands aside, the world must prepare for President Trump 2.0.*

I do not consider Biden too old to be president. I can't understand why people attach so much importance to age.

I judge candidates by what they stand for and what they do. Biden has positively surprised me with the half of his policies that have been progressive. That was a surprise because I expected him to be mostly plutocratist. To find the glass actually half full was good news.

I can't understand why any American who wants to continue democracy could support the fascist. But apparently some can.

*France faces court action over widespread use of racial profiling.

Rights groups hope to bring end to discrimination they say has gone unaddressed by successive governments.*

US citizens: call on Congress to ban its members from owning or trading individual stocks.

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

*Taxation is not a "burden".* It is a means to a decent society, and when properly spent, makes everyone better off except billionaires.

Here are some of the things we need that require taxation.