Wage increases account for 18% of Australia's inflation. Increases in business profits account for 69% of it.

In Australia as in the US and Britain, the central bank is run by neoliberals who refuse to recognize these facts.

*Moderna's "Deadly" Profits Show Public Funding Must Have Strings Attached.*

The US used to attach strings to research funding -- all discoveries made by university research done with government funding had to be made available for the government to use as it saw fit. This was eliminated by the Bayh-Dole bill, which sought to convince universities to be aggressive about licensing whatever they can get control over.

That's why nowadays writing software for a university is usually almost as bad as working writing software for a company.

*El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs — at huge cost to human rights.*

*Bangladesh shuts down main opposition newspaper.*

The world has been suffering from a rash of repression in the past few years.

Feral hybrid pigs that are hard to track, and kill wild animals, threaten ecological harm in the US.