The rebellion in the Donbass region of Ukraine bubbles on with occasional shelling that sometimes kills civilians.

Putin no longer needs that war for his destabilization attacks against the west, but there seems to be no prospect of ending it.

The opioid carfentanil is so powerful that a tiny dose can be fatal. It is somewhat unpredictable, so it encourages overdoses. However, the effect it is used for is the same as the effect of larger quantities of other, less potent opioids.

The reason for interest in carfentanil is that it is smaller and thus easier to smuggle. Thus, the danger of carfentanil is the direct result of prohibition.

Thousands of US citizens are wrongly deported from the US every year. Because being an unauthorized immigrant is not officially a crime — just treated like one — those accused are presumed guilty.

Regarding unauthorized immigrants working in restaurant jobs that Americans won't take: if the restaurants couldn't hire unauthorized immigrants, they might all have to pay higher wages, stop stealing wages, stop making work precarious and unpredictable, and then Americans would take these jobs.

The Vietnamese government now represses people for insulting visiting US politicians.

You'd never guess that this government came to power through a war to kick out US puppets. It has now become, more or less, a US puppet, in exchange for business opportunities.

Several Republican candidates tried racist campaigns in the recent election, and lost.