An Italian WHO scientist says he was pressured to cover up Italy's failure to plan for a future pandemic.

A call for people and government to do work to teach males not to be violent towards women, with suggestions.

The Burmese now blame China for its support of the murderous army.

The Observer: *On the erosion of our civil liberties.*

There is a report that Israel has attacked Iranian oil tankers, as well as Iranian ships carrying arms.

Israel has accused Iran of attacks at sea. If that's true, those may have been retaliation for Israeli attacks. I have a suspicion that the US encouraged Israel to make these attacks.

There is no reason for the US and Iran to be in conflict. Iran is not the Great Satan, and not a world power.

Iran supports Assad's regime in Syria. Assad is a dictator and torturer. However, the US supports torturer-dictators too, including Iran's great enemy, Salafi Arabia, so we Americans should not demonize Iran too much for this. Let's make our own government change its own wrongs.

Iran's government has a democratic part and an Islamist theocratic part. The theocratic part oppresses Iranians, and it should not exist. But there is nothing the US could or should do to change that. We Americans should focus on defeating the lunatic Christian theocratic movement that threatens our own country's rather limited democracy.