Thugs fired rubber-coated hard bullets at protesters in Emery University, as well as tear gas.

USC cancelled its combined graduation ceremony entirely, claiming this was because of "safety measures."

That is balderdash. The only new safety concern on the USC campus comes from the thugs that are arresting students at the behest of those same administrators. They can cure the safety problems easily by simply resigning.

There are several standard kinds of falsehood that are normally used as excuses for repression.

• "Security" or "safety", as we see in this case.
• Claiming to be protecting people in the neighborhood from the inconvenience or disturbance of a protest. One must ask how much actual inconvenience or disturbance they actually experienced. And also whether they were also among the protesters who were repressed.
• Demonization of harmless activities by referring to them with terms that presuppose that they were somehow harmful.
• Terms such as "trespassing", which appear to be objective condemnation but really mean nothing except "We administrators drew an arbitrary line and you crossed it."

Slovakia's new right-wing government is moving to exert political control over government support for independent media.

*Fears grow over rising number of oil lobbyists at UN plastic pollution talks.*

Allowing any representatives of oil companies in events intended to reduce the dangerous uses of petroleum simply invites their sabotage. Even if they claim that it is impossible for them to change faster, we can be sure that the real reason it is impossible is because they are trying hard to resist it.

The EPA has made a rule that coal-powered generators must in the future capture most of the greenhouse pollution they emit, or shut down.

The article is not clear about exactly which kinds of pollution this covers. Does it include all particulates? Does it include toxic chemicals? Does it include the fallout that consists of uranium naturally present in coal?

The coal industry continues demanding to be given billions for development of "carbon capture and storage", but when it sees a demand to start using that everywhere 15 years from now, it wants to fight. That demonstrates that their unending "development" of such capture is not meant as a serious solution, but rather as an excuse to let it continue.

*Council of Europe human rights watchdog condemns UK's Rwanda bill.*

Various countries are trying to make it difficult for people to ask for asylum there. Sending them to another place to wait for years while their cases are considered is a popular method, which has been used by Australia, the UK and the US. It is an injustice regardless of details.

But that's not the only method in use. Another is to slow down the processing of each case. Reducing the funding for handling cases will generally achieve that. If each asylum seeker has to wait for years while forbidden to work, it will drive many to give up.