Varoufakis gives quotes to prove that "bailout" of Greece was designed from the start to be a disaster.

I disagree with Paul Mason's judgment of Tsipras. Each stage of "bailout" only makes Greece weaker.

The US Justice Department will bring no charges against the thugs that held Alton Sterling down and shot him dead.

This could reflect a new policy of supporting thugs no matter how flagrant their crimes. But it will take more than one occasion to see if it is a new policy.

A Republican congresscritter revealed the cruelty of Republicans by blaming individuals for all their medical problems.

What Republicans are really saying is, "If you weren't born rich, you deserve a life of shit." They say this to serve the people they work for: the rich.

The last stage of Tory "welfare reform" was an arbitrary maximum limit on annual welfare payments. This was supposed to pressure people into working, even disabled people and people for whom working is logistically impossible.

This policy is a catastrophe for the non-rich, but not for the Tories that set it up. On the contrary, it achieves their goal: to drive the non-rich into ever-worse poverty, to the point that they become a timid and unresisting underclass, useful for intimidating everyone else.

There is one good effect of the policy: that it encourages some women to have abortions rather than babies. In our overpopulated world, with the human population still growing, people ought to ask themselves, "Is it right for me to have a child?" If it would be difficult for you to support one, that is the indirect way that the world shows you that you shouldn't have it.

However, the Tory choice to send this message by denying support to children Tories consider "excess" is cruel and destructive. It condemns real, live children to grow up in poverty, hunger and stress, which gratuitously stunts them for life.

Everyone: Urge Canada to protect the boreal forest.