Iranian suppression forces are grabbing students as they leave universities, beating them so badly that some are gravely injured, then taking them away and not telling anyone what happened to them.

Many reporters have been arrested.

The government is preparing to execute some of the protesters.

Ralph Nader: Americans, it is very important for you to vote this year.

You may think you can "leave politics alone", but the real effect of that is to let the worst plutocrats mistreat you at their ease.

US corporations are lobbying Congress at feverish pace to block bills that would hamper them from gouging.

It could be more effective to do that by increasing competition, which requires breaking up the oligopolies that mergers have saddled us with. My proposal for a progressive tax on gross income could do this.

* Governments meeting for [Cop27] climate talks have been accused of making positive commitments in public but denying them later in the privacy of the negotiating rooms.*

George Monbiot: the worst mass extinction in Earth's history, at the start of the Mesozoic era, seems to have been caused by the burning of lots of oil deposits in the ground. It made so much CO2 that a large part of the globe was lifeless for 5 million years.

The causes of that global heating episode were quite different from the situation today, but the effects today could be similar. What is not certain is how much global heating we will cause, this time.