Evidence suggests that fires in São Paulo favelas are intentionally set to force poor people off the land.

The value of bitcoin is shooting up in a speculative bubble.

The UK's policies make disabled people struggle to qualify for the benefits they used to get. Some of them think about suicide.

Many disabled people have been put in inaccessible apartments, so they can't get out unless people come to help them.

The effects of privatization are visible in the lack of training of their assessors. I suppose that the companies that contracted to do this committed to hire qualified people for the job. But the state does not sue them or punish if they don't carry out that promise. In practice, privatization leads to unaccountability, and it shows.

The Koch brothers are about to buy Time Magazine.

We must expect they will slant it to right-wing and planet-roaster propaganda.

Zuckerberg seems to be planning to make himself president, and Facebook's personal data base and manipulative power could enable him to do that.