The departure of migrants from Libya to Italy is not affected by whether ships would rescue them if their boat sank.

A plutocratist politician can get away with lying because the major media are working for the same plutocrats.

Amazon Deforestation 'At Highest Level in a Decade'.

Bolsonaro is doing this, and getting away with it.

Salafi Arabia wants to sell stock in its oil business, but buyers won't pay what was expected. This must mean that investors recognize that fossil fuels will not have a long and bright future.

Sweden has given a press freedom award to Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong publisher imprisoned by China for publishing books that criticized Chinese officials.

China immediately confirmed the nasty impression that the story of Gui Minhai suggest, by trying to bully the world into silence about China's crimes. Apparently Xi believes he can convert all the world's countries into Xiple using China's market power.

The sad thing is, he may be right, since so many countries are dominated by plutocrats who would gladly dispense with freedom of the press to get included in China's business.

It is interesting to compare Xi with the conman. The conman uses the US's power to increase his own power over the US. Xi already has total power over China, so he uses China's power to increase China's power over the rest of the world.