Pakistan is putting extremely strong pressure on people to get vaccinated.

I wonder why Pakistan now has such quantities of vaccine available. Apparently that was not the case before.

One Hong Kong political defendant was acquitted of "corruption". The charge was perhaps too far-fetched for even China to swallow.

In most Western democracies, politics has become a contest between two elites: the well-educated, and the wealthy. The major parties don't do much for the non-elites, but try to manipulate them through distractions (left-wing identity politics and right-wing scapegoating). Often they give up on politics.

I couldn't have described things as clearly or with as much basis as the article does, but I did dimly perceive the situation (as do many), and that is why I have supported Sanders and Corbyn.

Australia will pay about 300 million USD as reparations to the indigenous children that it forced to go to assimilation boarding schools.

Let's prohibit spraying chemicals in road borders and urban areas, to allow insects to come back.