Sanders proposes federally-funded prekindergarten and child care for young children, as an investment in America's future.

(satire) *the United States unveiled a plan Monday for the rest of the world to become carbon-neutral by 2030.*

China has sentenced kidnapped book publisher Gui Minhai to 10 years in prison.

Sanders will not attend the AIPAC event: "You can support the Palestinian and Israeli people without supporting leaders or organizations that oppose the freedom and liberation of the Palestinian people."

Craig Murray reports on how Julian Assange's extradition hearing is being stage-managed as a show trial. The public is nearly excluded, and the mainstream media quote from prosecutors' press release instead of reporting on the real matters at stake.

The whole article is worth reading. The details are far worse than I would have supposed.

*Julian Assange was handcuffed 11 times, stripped naked twice and had his case files confiscated after the first day of his extradition hearing, according to his lawyers, who complained of interference in his ability to take part.*

To do this to a person who has never shown any tendency to violence, and who is hardly able to access weapons, is sheer political theater as well as sabotage of his defense.