"As the Saudis attack the Yemeni port town of Hodeidah, the stated goal is to starve the residents into opposing the Houthi forces controlling the city. The US is actively participating in what is clearly a war crime against civilians. Why?"
"The three-year-long, U.S.-supported war on Yemen has already been devastating to Yemen’s 28 million residents. Today, it has entered a new phase—one that is described by the United Nations and U.S. lawmakers as 'catastrophic.'"
"How interesting that when it comes time for the government to pay out for the value of a human life they took, its valuation of a human life suddenly drops like a rock."
"State and local officials are doling out $4.5 billion and 1,000 acres to lure the Taiwanese manufacturing giant."
"These are not actions by rogue agents. They are systematic, and they come straight from the top."
"The system includes mandatory facial-recognition scans at gas stations and Wi-Fi sniffers that secretly collect data from network devices. Over the past two years, the technology has helped authorities round up an estimated hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other Muslims and lock them up in clandestine camps that China calls 're-education centers.'"
"Iran remains one of 33 countries, including the United States, that mete out the ultimate punishment for drug offenses -- but it dramatically raised the quantities of drugs needed to merit the death penalty."
"Germany's federal network agency, the Bundesnetzagentur, has announced a ban on the sale of children's smartwatches because some models come with a remote listening capability, which counts as a spying device under German law. The same agency banned the sale of the talking doll Cayla and similarly told parents to destroy the toy after deeming it a spying device."
"For long stretches of American history, it was commonplace for children to be snatched from their families."
"Trump is not fighting the US deep state by advancing longtime US deep state agendas, and anyone who thinks that he is has had some very bad luck with thinking."