The Georgia senate races are like Biden vs Trump: center-right "moderate" Democrats on one side, vs extremist trumpery on the other.

I urge Georgia voters to vote for the Democrats, then publicly protest against them for not being progressive.

*Canada Is Now Paying the Price for Privatizing Its Vaccine Research and Production Lab.*

*'A Kind of Terrorism': Israeli Human Rights Groups Offer Harrowing Look at IDF Night Raids on Palestinian Homes.*

*Afghan government and Taliban agree on rules for peace talks.*

The author voices concern that the Taliban intend to take all of Afghanistan after the US pulls out. I expect that. And I expect it to impose a cruel, repressive theocracy. But that is less bad than continuing the war for decade after decade.

India has hundreds millions of paupers who can hardly get jobs they can live on, and it is working very hard to make more of them, by using robots to eliminate better jobs.