*With Covid mutating, it's clearer than ever why we must eliminate this virus.*

The idea of letting Covid-19 run rampant until it produced herd immunity was always nonsense — the US is demonstrating that it implies lots of deaths along the way. But now we see that it won't necessarily ever stop, if mutations produce strains that old immunity doesn't protect against.

This also shows that we can't protect the population of one country without protecting all countries. If one large population continues to have Sar-Cov-2 circulating in it, it will generate mutant varieties that will then spread world-wide.

Thus, we must make plans to vaccinate all populations and thus eradicate the virus everywhere.

*Delayed Covid vaccines for poor countries 'will leave Europe vulnerable for years'.*

*Pollution killed nearly 1.7m people in India in 2019 – study.*

That is on the order of 1/10 of the total annual deaths in India.

*The [Tories] are pitting the white working class against black people.*

That's the standard distraction of the plutocratist right wing.

Puerto Rico's creditors for its unpayable debt are about to impose crushing, impossible taxes to pay the debt. This would leave almost everyone there in penury.

Prominent Turkish editor Can Dündar, driven into exile by absurd accusations of terrorism, has now been sentenced to a long prison term.

Fortunately Erdoğan is unable to imprison Dündar, but the prognosis for freedom in Turkey is not very good.