How the UK's "mainstream" right-wing press supports racism by targeting the weak and helpless.

China has banned Tesla cars from entering military bases.

I think that is wise. Maybe Tesla doesn't normally use the cameras in its cars for spying, but it would be foolish to trust any car not to spy.

We should not trust them either. Rather, we should require cars to be designed so that they can't spy on what is around them.

Nine months after many New York City thugs attacked peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters, only two thugs face some sort of legal proceedings.

But these legal procedings are not real criminal charges. The thug department will hold a hearing to decide whether to punish them. Perhaps they will get slaps on the wrist.

Around 180 more cases are still being investigated, slowly, but unless their acts of violence are taken more seriously than those two, thugs in NYC will continue to feel perfectly safe punching and kicking protesters.

Arguing that the US owes reparations to Iraq for the damage it has done.

I agree that the US owes reparations for damages, but I disagree on some secondary points.

The US did occupy Iraq for many years starting in 2003, but what the US military has done in Iraq in recent years was help to defeat PISSI. The US government has not controlled the Iraqi government for a long time — reportedly it has been friendlier to Iran than to the US.

Paying to rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure is not as simple as it sounds. This is not very different from the "nation building" activities that the US made for some years after the conquest in 2003, and those funds were mostly siphoned off to corruption.

Funding the rebuilding of infrastructure in the US without having the funds dissipated uselessly cannot be taken for granted. To do so in Iraq would be an amazing achievement.

Maybe the US could rebuild Iraq's medical system successfully. That may be the most important infrastructure system to rebuild.

*The planet cannot survive our remorseless pursuit of profit.*