*Torture complaint filed against new president of Interpol.* It has been filed with a French court on the occasion of his visit to Interpol headquarters in France, on behalf of two people who were tortured in the UAE.

New York's new mayor, an ex-thug himself, has seized on a small increase in street crime as an excuse to hire a lot more thugs.

The article proposes better ways to spend that money on reducing low-level crime, without increasing repression.

The most destructive crimes in the US are committed by powerful companies, and can't be stopped at the level of city governments.

*Another 'Big Lie' Corporatists Like to Tell: Bipartisanship Will Lead to Progress.*

I prefer the term "plutocracy" to "corporatocracy", because the crucial thing about that bad system is that the rich wield the power. Their use of corporations to do so is a detail of methods.

Bipartisanship existed in the US when both the major parties in the US were working for the rich. To the extent that Democrats worked for working people, or disprivileged racial groups, that broke the bipartisanship.

We are seeing a dangerous outbreak of bipartisanship right now: various congresscritters claim that the Biden administration has implemented the No Surprises Act — which is meant to prevent shocking, unexpectedly high medical bills — in an excessively effective fashion. They say the law was not supposed to work so effectively.

One of them, Richard Neale, was reelected in 2020 by means of dirty tricks against his opponent.

China has got its hands on 2500 dissidents who were living overseas.

In some cases this was done by kidnapping. In some cases, China used Interpol. Some returned "voluntarily" after China used their relatives as hostages.

Sometimes ordinary extradition sufficed, since China does not hesitate to fabricate accusations of nonpolitical "crimes".

The US has used relatives as hostages to try to make people spy for the US.

Most "negative reactions" to some Covid-19 vaccines are not caused by the vaccine itself; they result are caused by the negative form of the placebo effect.