Greenpeace is pressuring UK supermarket chains to stop buying beef from Brazilian companies that accept cattle from deforested land.

*How decades of racism and poverty help fuel the pandemic in America's deep south.*

We could eliminate large parts of these problems with Medicare for All and other progressive programs.

(satire) *… officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security praised Bolivian leaders Monday for eliminating voter fraud through their refusal to hold general elections.*

It would be very advantageous to have a vaccine for Covid-19 by the end of this year, but rushing things is dangerous.

The reason vaccines are generally very safe is that researchers take the time to make sure they are very safe before introducing them. The risk of a carefully tested vaccine may not be zero, but it is negligible compared with the risk of the disease it prevents. But that won't apply to a vaccine which has not been carefully tested.

North Korea probably now has nuclear missiles. This is unfortunate, but dictator Kim decided to do this, there was no way to stop him.

The issue for the US, and for South Korea and Japan, is what significance to assign to this. I think that it does not need to lead to war. Kim thinks of North Korea as his property, and he does not want to get it nuked, so why would he launch nukes?

He may feel so much safer, with his nukes, that he would look for peaceful relations with other countries.

North Korea is a totalitarian hell. But we cannot change that by threatening war. Meanwhile, China is developing into a totalitarian hell; Xinjiang is worse than North Korea, if what I have read is anything to go by. And we cannot change that either. Since North Korea does not threaten to take over the world, we may as well make peace with it.