*Jeremy Corbyn: Why Is There Always Money for War but Not Public Services?*

US citizens: call on your senators to vote against Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture.

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The urban heat island effect is more accurately described as a minority and poor people's neighborhoods heat island effect. As heat waves cause a fair number of deaths, this contributes to the gap in life expectancy between poor and non-poor and between disprivileged demographics and others.

Low-tech changes in building and street designs can reduce the heat island; some of them also reduce global heating by reflecting light back at the sky.

The US occupation of Iraq destroyed the structure of the country, and brought on a series of calamities which Iraq has never been able to address.

The US occupation did not cause Covid-19, but its consequences hamper dealing with it.

A million Iraqis live in refugee camps, including children whom the state treats as unpersons. Meanwhile, most of Mosul was wrecked by PISSI and the war to kick out PISSI, and most of the wrecked buildings just sit there with the bones of the people who died in them. Nobody dares clean up the wreckage because of the booby traps.

Foreign corporations are using I-Sue-Democratic-States clauses in business-supremacy treaties to sue the US and other countries for losses they suffered due to measures to suppress Covid-19.

Maybe now we can get rid of those business-supremacy treaties, or at least those clauses. The business-supremacy treaties are harmful as a whole because they are instruments of dooH niboR. They may cause an increase in overall economic growth, but poor people don't share in the benefit.