"Turns Out 'Tough on Crime' Is Only for the Poor": Report Details Trump DOJ's Corporate-Friendly Record.

The UN has made a long-term general agreement with the most powerful corporations.

The article doesn't say specifically what the agreement involves doing, but if the UN depends on those corporations for support, it will tend over time to become their tool — along with many national governments and many universities.

Indonesian police seem to be lying about the violence in West Papua, about question such as who started it, and how many indigenous people were killed.

A report says that China is holding writer Yang Hengjun incommunicado in brainwashing conditions.

Cutting him off from his lawyer is part of predetermining the outcome of the case. Political trials in China are not real trials. They intend to convict him; his crimes remain to be decided.

They must hope that boredom will drive him to read the propaganda material for making Xi-ple. (The consonant in Xi is pronounced somewhat like "sh".)

Labour will pledge to eliminate specific parts of the Tories' crush-the-poor policies.