Glenn Greenwald quit The Intercept after it would not publish an article that criticized Biden.

The editor denies the accusation, but I believe Greenwald. There is plenty to criticize about Biden, and Greenwald is surely accustomed to editing of his work; he can tell the difference between changes to make the piece better and changes to suppress his ideas.

Greenwald knows that Biden looks good only in contrast to the wrecker. I hope Biden replaces the wrecker, but if he does, we will find him even more "moderate" (i.e., generally unsympathetic to necessary reforms) than Obama was.

I hope that Greenwald will find a new visible place to publish.

In 1953, the UK overthrew the recently elected government of Guyana, supposedly a self-governing colony at the time, and imposed a state of repression comparable to Kashmir today.

The idea of extracting Guyana's oil may excite dangerous rivalries, but the most dangerous thing would be to burn that oil. The universal answer to all questions about what to do with untapped oil reserves is, "Leave them in the ground."

Protests designed to bring down a tyrant have often failed in recent decades. One additional example, not mentioned in the article, was in Nicaragua.

There are, however, cases where they have succeeded. And other examples where protests have thwarted a coup that tried to overthrow an elected government.

Black Lives Matter protests have already influenced laws in parts of the US, and their enforcement (by election of progressive prosecutors). So far this change covers only small areas, but with time they will achieve more. Also, this is one area where they may be successful at the federal level if Democrats win control of the US government.

*Federal Prosecutors Engaged in Unprecedented Push to Jail Protesters Before Trial.*

Qatar says that strip-searching women passengers to see if one had just given birth was illegal.

I am surprised to learn that the baby was and is alive. I got the impression from the first article that it was dead.

However, I don't think this justifies desperately trying to find the mother. I expect that being a single mother in Qatar leads to persecution, such as no longer occurs in western countries. Is there any safe place in Qatar for a mother to anonymously leave a baby that she cannot keep or acknowledge?