Puerto Rico's governor, and its nonelected government, say they want to use the hurricane's damage as an opportunity to privatize its electric system.

The new owner could squeeze out short-term profits.

Australia plans to criminalize reporting on leaked secrets.

The citizens of Oregon voted to raise their taxes so as to support medical care.

The ideology of "free trade" pressures all countries to compete to bow down and serve China's tyranny.

This is especially sad now that the "economic growth" that they say requires this goes mainly to make the rich richer -- which is hardly a worthy goal.

This is not a natural state of affairs. It results from the business-supremacy treaties.

The right kind of trade treaty, one intended to strengthen democracy, would punish countries with trade sanctions for any acts of tyranny, such as bogus punishment of dissidents.

The troll's practice of calling all news he doesn't like "fake" has been imitated by repressive rulers around the world.

In the case of Catalonia, I read claims that some specific photos posted around the time of the quashed referendum were fake. But there was plenty of evidence of the repression.