*Sanders and Klobuchar Reintroduce Legislation to Cut [Medicare] Drug Prices in Half.*

British Columbia (on Canada's west coast) is having floods, while neighboring Alberta is having wildfires.

The tar sands oil that Alberta exports is partly responsible for both.

Andrew Malkinson has been in prison for 17 years for rape, because thugs concealed the evidence that should have shown he didn't do it.

It's amazing how often officials illegally conceal exculpatory evidence and succeed in bringing about an abortion of justice. (The word "miscarriage" is a mistaken metaphor because they happen by accident.) We read over and over of people who were convicted in the US as a result of such deception. These prosecutors have to know they are lying someone into prison or (in the US) into the death row. Why don't we put them in prison for this?

Canada persecutes people who help anyone commit suicide — even with advice.

Limited to only incomplete and bad advice, some people may survive, physically damaged, and compelled to return to life even worse than it was before.

Two years ago, Belarus forced down an airliner crossing its territory so as to seize dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich and his (then? former?) girlfriend, Sofia Sapega. Now Lukashenko has tentatively decided to keep him in prison for 8 years for the crime of journalism.

There is no reason to suppose Lukashenko would actually release him, 8 years from now. It might do to him what Israel has done to Mordechai Vanunu — keeping him effectively incommunicado indefinitely, and pretending it is has a purpose other than making him suffer.

Sapega was sentenced to 6 years in prison.