Korea's missile tests appear to have carried extremely light payloads and lacked heat shields. They would not be able to reach Guam with a real bomb.

However, North Korea's threat to spread carnage in Seoul with conventional weapons if it is attacked is not a bluff. The US should take advantage of the offer of negotiations.

Liu Xia, widow of Liu Xiaobo, is still held incommunicado, but her captors released a video in which she says what they told her to say.

Airplane crewmembers are getting contaminated with organophosphates, and this is suspected of causing some to end up permanently sick, or even dead.

Workers in Silicon Valley are forming unions.

The troll's endorsement of right-wing extremists, in the meeting where he intended to push his corrupt infrastructure plan, may have pushed away the support of plutocratist Democrats such as Pelosi and Schumer.

Those pseudo-Democrats will have plenty more chances to support the banks and dooH niboR. We need to replace them with progressive Democrats — people who will reject these bow-down-to-business plans because they bow down to business rather because of secondary associations.

The reason the US government can't afford to maintain and build infrastructure now is because business has too much power, and uses that power to pay too little tax.

Republicans, and plutocratist Democrats, offer this as an excuse for privatization that would give business even more power. What we need to do is take that power away.