The state-supported "loyalist" assassins in Northern Ireland warned the prime minister of Ireland that officials had asked them to kill him and to spread diseases in Ireland.

They refused to kill him, and presumably refused to spread the diseases either.

"The people who understand corruption best are very poor people and very rich people. The stronger the middle class, the less powerful corruption is."

It follows that plutocracy makes for more corruption.

The US Constitution is a skeleton that depends on joints, muscles and tendons to make the government move in the right ways. Now that Republicans have torn those up, we see that a Constitution interpreted by machines or unscrupulous lawyers fails to do its job.

Solidarity protests in Chicago for Hondurans fighting their stolen election.

Some of the members of the HIV/AIDS Advisory Council resigned to protest the saboteur's lack of concern for the issue. He just fired all the rest, confirming their accusation.