Various parts of Italy have suffered unusual heavy rains, which generally arid Italy is not ready for.

This is global heating at work. It has caused record high temperatures, too.

Israeli fascists marched in Jerusalem; some chanted "death to Arabs".

Url Avnery warned years ago that the Israeli right-win sought to render the West Bank "Araberrein" (without any Arabs). Avnery meant this to compare them with the Nazis whom he had seen in Germany in the 1930s, before his family fled to what they hoped would become Israel.

US citizens: call on Democrat leaders to stand firm against Republican ransom demands.

US citizens: call on Congress to reject the "HALT Fentanyl Act" which would prohibit a wide range of substances, most of which have never been tested on people at all. Of those few which have been tested, most were harmless. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

* [President Macron] had no mandate to dismantle France’s social model. His contempt for the people risks opening the door to extremism.*