Sweden has dropped charges against Julian Assange, rejecting the option of bringing him to Sweden with a commitment not to send him to the US.

However, Assange still can't leave the Ecuadorian embassy, as the UK has found a minor crime to arrest him for, and the troll regime says it plans to prosecute him somehow.

It appears they intend to make him spend the rest of his life in the Ecuadorian embassy.

I conjecture that Sweden dropped the charges because the US no longer had any need for them.

The Tories are systematically borrowing Republican techniques to suppress voting by the poor. Next step: voter ID.

The Tories are also imitating the troll's contempt for reporters that are not subservient.

Plutocratist parties operate governments of occupation on behalf of the conquering global rich. They may use democracy while it exists, but they aim to deny the people to any real control over their destiny. In the process of doing so, they become ever less legitimate as governments. They deserve their power no more than any other government of occupation.

Globalized industry pressures countries to compete to allow the highest levels of pollution.

If we want to change this, "rewarding social responsibility" is a weak intervention. We should prohibit import of goods that polluted where they were made.

The seed vault in Svalbard had a close scare from global heating effects.

Svalbard is heating faster than almost anywhere else on Earth. If we don't curb global heating soon, it will be above freezing all the time for several months of the year.

Without Action on Antibiotics, Medicine Will Return to the Dark Ages.