55,000 school workers in Ontario have gone on strike, showing they refuse to be intimidated by the law to fine them CAN 4,000 per day for striking.

Perhaps it would be better tactics to quit their jobs instead of striking. I suppose they can't be fined for quitting.

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.*