*Corporate Concentration in the US Food System Makes Food More Expensive and Less Accessible*.

At the other end of the food system are the farmers. The same powerful middlemen squeeze them too.

(satire) *GOP Senators Argue It’s Unconstitutional To Be Forced To Work On A Tuesday.*

Scientists say it is possible to move to 100% renewable energy system by 2035, with coordinated global action.

This would go a long way preventing global heating disaster, and eliminate much of the pollution that kills millions of people every year.

But not all of it. For instance, vehicle tires produce an important part of particulate pollution; changing the source of the energy that moves the vehicle will not affect that pollution.

On Burma's tradition of underground resistance to military rule.

The EU trained Burmese thugs in "crowd control", which in this case means repressing protests to restore democracy.

President Higgins of Ireland criticizes the tendency to whitewash imperialism (and specifically the British rule over Ireland). At the same time, he warns against narrowminded nationalism, including condemning all British over the current policies of the UK.