UN special rapporteur: the reported achievement of reducing extreme poverty masks a misleading failure to lift people out of poverty in most of the world.

Australia plans a secret trial against Witness K for exposing Australia's commercial spying on East Timor. Witness K's lawyer is being prosecuted too.

This makes Australia the moral equivalent of a gangster that tries to assassinate the witnesses to his crimes.

Ironically, this all concerns the question which country will get to extract oil from which parts of the sea between the two countries. The right answer is obvious: "Neither country can touch that oil — keep it in the ground!"

The bullshitter started a commission to investigate supposed voter fraud in the US. (Answer: there isn't any.)

Matthew Dunlap, a member of the commission, discovered he was there only to make it look honest — the commission refused to show him the supposed evidence it was looking at, and the staff were working on a report which the supposed members were not told about.

He sued, got a copy, and found the staff had no evidence to go on.

As has been reported many times before, there is no evidence of any significant level of fraudulent voting in the US. The only fraud that really happens is when Republicans disenfranchise citizens that are legally entitled to vote.

The Biden-Sanders unity panels won Biden's assent to a number of progressive proposals, but not Medicare for All.

The climate defense proposals go beyond what Congress has considered, but the use of the term "net zero" suggest they are based on a weak foundation.

Bahrain is on the verge of executing two democracy advocates after reportedly false confessions.

As I recall, the kings of Bahrain are Sunnis but the majority of Bahrainis are Shi'ites. In 2011 they protested for democracy, but Bahrain brought in troops from a nearby Arab country (UAE?) to crush the protests.