Plutocratist Democrats in Congress have tied their hands with a rule against passing any measures that increase the deficit.

This puts the US on course to have a balanced budget in 50 years: zero dollars revenue, and zero dollars expenditure.

Bolsonaro has launched a plan to wipe out the indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest.

The Houthis have been manipulating food aid to bring a bigger fraction of food aid to areas they control.

The article is not clear about exactly what is going on. Unless the Houthis have been misrepresenting the amount of hunger in areas they do not control — and how could they do that? — the root of the problem seems to be that the total amount of food aid is not enough.

Bangladesh is using its new press censorship law to punish reports of problems in the election.

A study of how an Israeli soldier shot medic Rouzan al-Najjar suggests that the shooter did not aim directly at her, but firing near a group of medics is a war crime anyway.

So is firing at a group of people who are not participating in violence.

During 2018, Israeli forces killed 265 Palestinians and wounded 29,000. Around 1,500 of the wounded can't recover easily.