Amazon biases its searches to favor vendors that use Amazon for their shipping.

If this isn't illegal, it ought to be. We should not allow a store as big as Amazon to have anything to do with order fulfillment, for its own sales or anyone else's.

Germany has given Lufthansa a bailout — not as a handout, nor as a loan, but in exchange for stock in the company.

Australia by mistake allowed crew to debark from a cargo ship without testing them for Covid-19, although they said they had fever. Now it is about to make another mistake, keeping everyone else on the ship and making them sail it away "as soon as possible".

Surely they know about the flying dutchmen ships whose crews have been prisoners on their ships, for months? Is Australia aiming to impose that fate on this crew?

Those who want off the ship should be allowed off, and quarantined separately long enough to establish who is not sick. Then, if given assurance that their next destination will let them dock, they could take the ship away.

Canadian minister says that the fear of Covid-19 makes for a "great time" to build a planet-roaster pipeline.

Maybe so, but any time is a horrible time to have that pipeline operating on our planet.

In a debate, primary challenger Jamaal Bowman attacked corporatist and militarist Rep. Elliot Engel for upholding plutocracy and supporting wars.