Australia traded an Iranian prisoner for two Australian tourists jailed in Iran.

The Iranian prisoner was accused by the US of violating trade sanctions. I don't think Australia had any reason to cooperate with that. At the same time, this demonstrates that Iran is quick to treat visitors as pawns.

Ten US army bases are named after Confederate generals that fought against the US army. Some of them were special champions of slavery.

I understand the concept of honoring specific soldiers separately from the issue of slavery, but I don't think all of them were ever soldiers in the US Army. In any case, rejecting the Confederacy, along with the system of slavery it fought to defend, takes priority. The army should change those names.

US citizens: call on the acting DNI to pledge to protect the identity of whistleblowers that report on the bully's crimes.

The bully is trying to find out the Ukraine whistleblower's identity, so that people can persecute per.

Some sentences in the article are hard to understand due to referring to an individual whistleblower as "them" instead of "per".

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US citizens: call on Congress to investigate how Hurricane Maria caused a general communications breakdown in Puerto Rico.

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Labour's pledge to authorize generic manufacture despite drug patents will save lives.

No sooner did the WTO get set up, imposing drug patents on all member countries but allowing an exception for compulsory licensing when necessary, than big countries started pressuring against use of that exception. In the late 90s, President Clinton put Al Gore in charge of that pressure.

Jamie Love pointed out to Gore that this would look bad if he ran for president, and Gore stopped.