Trump has invested at least a million dollars in companies that are involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline, and one of them paid at least 100,000 to his campaign.

It seems like a corrupt conspiracy to me.

Germany has admitted defeat for the TTIP.

Even if everything else Trump does is vicious, we must credit Trump with this one good deed. Activists had pretty much defeated the TTIP, but there's a difference between "pretty much defeated" and "defeated conclusively". With so much political pressure to agree to an antidemocratic deal, states can often find a way to bypass democratic obstacles.

Everyone: to the US press: don't "normalize" Trump and his henchmen.

Here's what the issue is.

Jakarta's Christian Governor to Face Blasphemy Trial over Islam Insult Claim.

The government ceded to the demands of religious fanatics, stirred up over decades by Salafi Arabia, who are using him as an opportunity to deny equal rights to all the non-Muslims in Indonesia.

The right to criticize a religion is an essential part of human rights. It appears that Ahok did not really do that; I think he would not have won the election if he really had criticized the religion of most of the voters in his region. But someone's innocence or guilt under a manifestly unjust law is a distraction from the guilt of the law itself.

The idea that no one but a Muslim should be a leader over Muslims is in itself an example of the bigotry that often embodies Islam. We are obligated to respect people's right maintain such a view, but the view itself deserves only condemnation.

The UK has finally denied the Chagos Islanders the right to return to the islands from which they were forcibly removed to make a US naval base.

The UK created a nature reserve which was widely seen as an excuse to keep them from returning home. Some environmentalist groups advocated the denial as a means to keep the people out entirely.

I think it must be possible for civilization to have a part and for wildlife to have a part.