How the World Bank's loans to poor countries tend to keep them poor.

Trickle-down from arms sales is not enough to excuse US support for Salafi Arabia's war of aggression in Yemen.

The confirmation of Kavanaugh was another step in the degradation of the US judiciary. The previous step — the Guantanamo kangaroo courts — is still going on.

FEMA's slow response to Hurricane Michael resembles the slow response in New Orleans.

It is too soon to say whether it is as bad as what happened in Puerto Rico a year ago.

Reportedly Turkey gave the US recordings that demonstrate that Salafi Arabian officials murdered Jamal Khashoggi in the consulate in Istanbul.

In the moral vacuum created by the bully's rejection of human rights as a global goal, pressuring Salafi Arabia for the apparent murder of Jamal Khashoggi falls to businesses and the media. While it is good that they are helping out in the case of Khashoggi, in general I don't think their support is very reliable.