For the press to cover the bully clearly in a way that supports the truth, it should not take his bizarre denials and excuses seriously. They are meant to distract, so don't be distracted by them.

A US air strike in 2013 attacked a truck and killed 14 people from a family. The one survivor was a 4-year-old girl, who was left blind, one-handed, and orphaned. The US insisted on the claim that there were Taliban soldiers in the truck, counter to all the available facts.

Uri Avnery: The Israeli Knesset (parliament) allowed Jewish MPs to break the rules noisily by applauding Pence. When the Arab MPs broke the rules silently by holding up signs, they were physically kicked out.

However, Avnery is cheered by the many Israelis that refuse to transport African refugees being deported.

Israeli Holocaust survivors implored Netanyahu to let the Africans remain in Israel.

Automating public services meant to help people makes them rigid, impersonal, unhelpful, and inaccessible.

That makes it harder for people to get help, so they give up, and the state saves money by not doing its job.

A transgender woman prisoner in the UK, jailed in a men's prison, says she will fast to death demanding to be moved to a women's prison.

Three others killed themselves already.