An Australian minister ordered an auditor not to discuss whether an arms contract was unreasonably expensive, on the grounds the information might harm the interests of the arms company.

This means that the Australian government is in effect a government of occupation for foreign arms companies, as well as for foreign coal companies.

The latest form of identity politics is to condemn straight actors for playing homosexual roles.

Since gay actors such as Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn (according to Scotty Bowers) have played straight characters (and done it well), why shouldn't straight actors play homosexual roles? Why should it matter what any actor's real orientation is? The only question that should matter is whether that actor plays the role well.

Supposedly "bipartisan" seminars for US judges teach right-wing thinking that endorses deregulation.

Joseph Stiglitz: how the US economy and political system were rigged to benefit the plutocrats and screw most people.

Because the plutocrats got their wealth by legalizing cheating, and hold on to their political power by lying and rigging elections, they have no moral right to either this wealth or this power. We should organize to take it and redistribute it. We need to do it soon, in time to stop them from roasting Earth's ecosphere.

The UAE hired US veterans to assassinate local leaders in Yemen. The targets were called "terrorists".