Barr asked US attorneys to charge protesters with "sedition" — a charge that would almost always be bullshit.

The US military-industrial complex proposes to build 60 additional naval ships, because a navy that China could catch up with in decades is not considered sufficient. That does not seem logical to me.

China's approach to taking over the South China Sea is to build airfields on small islands and reefs. Ships are much more vulnerable than those airfields. It seems to me that the US would find it more effective, as well as cheaper, to help its regional allies build more such airfields.

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Indian thugs in Kashmir arrested a man, then tortured him and killed him. (Of coure, they deny this.) This triggered protests, much as it does in the US.

It appears that the repression of Kashmir in general is not as severe as it was some months ago: the internet is not shut off all the time any more, only sometimes.

Israel has discovered how to make occupation of Palestine profitable.