Business wants to expand fracking in the US, and export the gas in ships to Europe, to make plastic.

This is so wasteful it is crazy.

The oil that is made into plastic is not burnt; it doesn't turn into greenhouse gases. But fracking leaks methane, so it adds to the greenhouse effect.

Since plastic gets into the ocean and kills sea life, we need to make less of it. A higher price would have that effect.

Telegram is cooperating with Iran on censorship of certain topics including "anti-religious" material. Maybe stallman.org.

Isn't Telegram supposed to offer end-to-end encryption? If that works, how can it tell whether messages are anti-religious? How can it tell whether they are pornography?

Macron pledges to cut 120,000 public jobs, reduce spending by 60 billion Euros, jettison the 35-hour workweek, raise the retirement age, weaken unions’ negotiating strength, and cut corporate taxes. All the standard neoliberal "trickle-down" policies that really represent dooH niboR.

This will lead to more unemployment and more inequality in France. The rich will get richer, but nothing will trickle down to the poor.

Youth unemployment, the lack of a future to hope for, tends to be concentrated in minority groups. In France that means Muslims. That's the exact opposite of what is needed to discourage Islamist radicalization.

Let's hope it is Mélanchon rather than Le Pen that gets the support of the victims in the next French election.

Democratic politicians are more hawkish than the voters that support them. Democrats should start pushing for diplomacy instead of war.

Wall-Street Democrat Cuomo, the governor of New York, wants to privatize Penn Station.

Privatizing anything tends to result in bad service for the users and bad wages for the workers, but some rich cronies will profit.