An explicitly plutocratist party is expected to win the elections in Greece.

I think Syriza's surrender discredited the idea of resistance. Perhaps Greeks have thrown in the towel, and are now telling themselves that surrender will get them some trickle-down. However, we've seen that that's bullshit. The plutocrats will be nice to you until you have swallowed the hook, but then they squeeze ever harder.

Getting a little more privileges in the labor camp, through assiduous obedience, will never get you freedom.

China is taking thousands of Uighur children away from their parents and putting them into boarding schools designed to assimilate them.

This resembles what the US and Canada did to indigenous peoples during much of the 20th century. Public opinion made the US and Canada stop this, but in China public opinion is not allowed to exist.

Even fairly mild reproach of China for putting a million Uighurs in brainwash camps has discomfited China. Firm pressure might accomplish a great deal.

Perhaps Hong Kong should be the main target of the pressure, for now.

The British navy captured an Iranian oil tanker said to be taking oil to Syria.

This was clearly an act of war, and justifies military action Iran's part.

The capture took place in disputed waters near Gibraltar, and Spain has objected to it.

I can't see what relevance EU sanctions have. If the are sanctions, they prohibit certain dealings between EU entities and Syria. I don't see how an Iranian ship would come under EU sanctions, unless it is owned by a European company.

Only a blockade would purport go that far, and a blockade, if there were one, would be an act of war in itself. (Remember when Egypt blockaded Elat? Israel responded to that, legitimately, by capturing the Sinai.)

I don't think the EU has announced a blockade of Syria. Indeed, it is unable to do such a thing; the whole field of war is outside the EU's scope.

So there is some bullshit here. I hope someone sorts out the facts.

An independent expert group sponsored by the European Union has published a plan for promoting "trustworthy AI".

It does not seem to propose how to develop an AI to be trustworthy, how to determine whether a given AI program is infact trustworthy, or how any AI program can be trustworthy. As far as I know, these are totally unsolved problems, but the report takes for granted some solution is used.

Plants exchange signals and respond to some stimuli. Don't leap to the conclusion that this means they can feel or think.