*3 Ways the US Refuses to Play by Global Rules.*

I have to point out that the US is hardly alone in dragging its feet on preventing global heating disaster. Most countries are doing that.

The fact that a country is not alone in doing that is no excuse at all.

*FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting.*

US antitrust law needs to be made far more strict, and this is surely not enough, but these new guidelines look like a good step.

China seems to have bought the total support of a newspaper in the Solomon Islands with a donation of equipment.

Billionaires have bought famous US and British newspapers outright and obtained their permanent total support. It is easier to condemn this when China does it, but I think the domestic billionaires are more dangerous.

*Thinktanks say the checks and balances of civil society such as judges and campaigners are under "political attack" by ministers.*

The Putin forces are systematically bombarding Ukraine's export facilities for grain.

This calls for retaliation against Russia's export facilities for oil.