Big US news media accept lots of money from corporations to sponsor "news events" that present slanted news.

The OECD calls for government spending without tax increases, to reduce the Covid-19 depression and help unemployed people.

Deficit spending can be made possible by government borrowing, but also by creating more currency in accord with Modern Monetary Theory, except for countries trapped in the Euro-zone

I think it is safe to tax billionaires a lot more since they got such a windfall this year.

*US corporations file for bankruptcy and lay off workers. Why do execs still get bonuses?*

A dissident journalist in Turkey is being prosecuted for mocking medieval Ottoman sultans.

I doubt the statement that they were from the 13th century, since the first Ottoman prince, Osman, did not become the ruler of a principality until 1299. It is more likely that they were from the 14th or 15th centuries.

It should not be a crime to insult a deceased person, or a living person — or anyone or anything. Such laws are repressive.

A whistleblower reports that a privatized immigration prison carried out hysterectomies by force against prisoners.

One of the reasons we must abolish privatized prisons is that it is harder to hold them accountable for any sort of cruel, degrading, injurious or even fatal conduct. Even when people have been convicted of a crime — which these prisoners mostly have not been — that does not excuse such treatment of them.