Some manufacturers of medical equipment are trying to impose conditions on how the purchaser uses it — "use for execution prohibited." They are trying to propagate this to indirect purchasers too.

I oppose the death penalty. However, these manufacturers are claiming the outrageous general power to control those who buy their products. Use that power to ban use for execution, they could use it to ban anything else too. Imagine "Use of this cable for copying audio and video works without explicit authorization from copyright holders is prohibited."

We must not tolerate the attempt to impose such power just because it is being applied today to aid a cause we support.

*The One Million Tibetan Children in China’s Boarding Schools.* They are being taught Chinese culture and separated from Tibetan culture. Tibet is being abolished.

Many other countries have done this to minority groups, including the US, UK, Canada and France, to mention only those I recall at this moment.

Robert Reich: *Why labor activism is good for America.*

Trudeau accuses Indian agents of murdering a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.

I do not see a reason to support that separatist cause, but assassinating exiles is not justified.

A large UK union will spend some money on publicly promoting a few specific policy issues, instead of giving it to Labour.

Not all of these policies are good. One of them is to continue developing more offshore oilfields, to extract oil that the world cannot safely burn or make into more plastic.

I am in favor of a well-managed green transition, but trying to demand it by overdrawing the carbon budget is environmental terrorism.

I can't see a reason why it would be beneficial overall to subsidize steel production rather than import it. Does that have any purpose except competition for the votes of steel workers?