School systems should not waste money on armed guards -- they don't make students safer in school because school is generally the safest place they ever go.

China intimidates Uyghurs even outside China, through the threat to their relatives.

The way China treats non-Uyghur Chinese expats is similar, just not as brutal.

Greta Thunberg explains her school strike and weekly protest to demand curbing global heating fast.

"Some say I should be in school. But why should any young person be made to study for a future when no one is doing enough to save that future? What is the point of learning facts when the most important facts given by the finest scientists are ignored by our politicians?"

Some in San Francisco do not like the fact that the city's general hospital has been renamed after Zuckerberg, and one official has proposed to change the name back.

I think that the practice of naming institutions and buildings after donors is in general a form of decadence, regardless of who the donors are.

Whether the donors have a bad influence on the organization's activities is a different question: sometimes that happens, but not always. I don't think Zuckerberg's money would tend to corrupt the activity of a hospital — as far as I know, he has no special interests regarding hospitals. However, his money or Facebook's money might corrupt other kinds of organizations where they do have interests at stake.

The Gates Foundation's money has served to impose his policy ideas on education in the US.

CNN fired commentator Mark Lamont Hill for speaking in favor of boycotting Israel for the sake of equal rights for Palestinians. This was described as "antisemitism".

His talk advocated a single state made up of what are now Israel and Palestine — a solution I do not support — and treats them unequally by calling that single state "Palestine". I don't like that position, but it is not antisemitic, because Israel and Jews are not the same.

I reject the claim that having two states is impossible, because the US has the power to pressure Israel quite firmly, and maybe it could bring about the return of the Palestinian land Israeli fanatics have colonized, if it tried. The US government is unwilling to try, but since it is unwilling to do anything towards any scheme for peace and equality between Israel and Palestine, that is no argument for preferring one such scheme to another. Following Uri Avnery, I advocate two states.

I am not dead-set on that solution. If Israelis and Palestinians come to support some other scheme for peace, then unless there is something gravely unjust about it, I will support giving it a try.