A prisoner in Virginia was kept in solitary confinement for almost 2 years, and it made him severely mentally ill. For instance, he can no longer communicate in English, only mutter unintelligibly. And he cannot recognize his mother any more.

This makes me think of the terribly sad ending of the great movie, Brazil.

The nastiest part is the fact that prisoners in solitary in Virginia that can't communicate in written English can never get out of solitary. What kind of fool cannot recognize the injustice of this?

US workers now have as much assets, on the average, as they had in 2007. But still 30% less than in 2003.

Modelling suggests that European agriculture will lose around 15% of its yield by 2050.

It is probably similar for the US.

Germany has announced a ban on glyphosate.

Iran is still holding the British oil tanker that it seized in apparent retaliation for the Iranian tanker that the UK had seized.

This does not seem justified to me, nor an effective way to push back against the US tactics.