Jacob Blake describes his life as constant pain. Every movement hurts.

I hope it gets less painful as his wounds heal.

The UK barred Amnesty International and other human rights groups from monitoring Julian Assange's extradition hearing.

The UK government now believes it can get away with all sorts of repression and anti democratic behavior. I hope it is mistaken.

The fossil fuel industry, deadly in the long term, is unprofitable overall even in the short term.

However, the big fossil fuel companies are not hurting enough to shut down. If they are not making profits in the way we were taught to think of business as making profits, I suspect they are running something we would consider a scam if we knew about it.

*The Real 'Hoax' in America Is Record Wall Street Profits as Nation's Jobless Millions Cannot Afford Rent.*

Rage is building. But Republicans fool the enraged public into directing their rage against masks and disease-prevention precautions, instead of the proper targets: the plutocrats and the politicians that serve them.

The Tibetan Policy and Support Act would have the US officially reject and punish China's intended attempt to appoint the next Dalai Lama.