Assad's army fired missiles containing cluster bombs at a refugee camp and a hospital, both in Idlib.

The major powers have given up entirely on trying to stop such warfare.

*Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu indicted for bribery and fraud.*

His corruption has been generally known for many years. Uri Avnery wrote about how difficult it was for the state to get to grips with this.

Iran has centralized its outside internet gateways, and has tested a firewall that separates all domestic internet users from the rest of the world.

This is an advance in repression — exceeding that of the great firewall of China, but more bearable for nonpolitical people than what India has done to Kashmir.

Warning: China is trying to subvert and control the Australian government.

Control by China would be very bad, in the area of human rights. Australia is already vicious in that area, but China would surely continue the existing injustice and add to it.

Currently fossil fuel companies control the Australian government. Would China continue their planet-roasting policies or change them?

Ilhan Omar has proposed a ten-year plan to build 12 million affordable, low-footprint housing units.

This is an alternative to the Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders.