US citizens: call on Congress to stop private equity buyouts that profit from destroying a company.

Uighurs Challenge China to Prove Missing Relatives Are Free.

With the state control over communications, it would be easy to kill people and claim to have released them.

We still know nothing of the fate of the new Panchen lama, disappeared by China while still a child, and his family.

We would not trust claims by the bullshitter's agents about what has become of arrested refugees, so why believe what China says.

A right-wing nut wants to make it a felony to throw water at thugs. Unfortunately, that nut is a state legislator in New York.

I wonder if the Burmese water festival is celebrated anywhere in NYC. Under that proposed law, if thugs show up there, they could arrest lots of the participants.

Kamala Harris's medical care plan is a step up from today, but has many flaws compared with Sanders's Medicare for All.

In particular, it supposes that the companies that sell medical care plans operate from good will, instead of the chiselers and gougers we see.

Harris was persistently harsh to the accused as attorney general of California, opposing criminal justice reform. When she does take a progressive stand, she sometimes changes her mind under pressure.

More about her past as a prosecutor.

She also championed a law for internet censorship, which equates ignorance to guilt.

The overarching political issue of our times is democracy vs plutocracy; an official that works for the plutocrats is not going to help restore democracy.

As Biden falls in the polls, plutocrats are moving their investment to Kamala Harris (and Buttigieg).

Harris accepted campaign funds from pharma executives this year.

Kamala Harris Set To Raise Money With Former Wells Fargo Executive.

On the bad implications of the word "migrant".