US citizens: Call on the US army to block the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Farmers in India want to roast our planet so that they can put off their own Malthusian disaster for one more generation.

The problem is that they have been having too many children. They must stop.

Wealthy countries should help them stop, with donations of birth control products and sterilizations. But we must also deny our sympathy to those responsible for the overreproduction when they complain about the consequences.

Trump said that not paying tax made him "smart". Tim Cook says that ordering Apple to pay tax is "political crap."

It's basically the same idea: "You little guys pay the costs of running our country. We powerful people and companies are too important to be bothered."

The Panama Papers show that UK lawyers are behind a large part of the international tax evasion schemes, and the Tories protect them.

I wonder if part of the motive for their insistence on taking the UK out of the European Union is so that the EU can't make the UK shut this down.

Britain's National Health Service, the greatest achievement of democratic socialism, is on the brink of collapse because the Tories keep cutting the funds.

Filmmaker Deia Schlosberg, who was involved in making Gasland, faces charges carrying 45 years in prison for filming a pipeline protest.

One hopes these charges will be dismissed because they are unconstitutional, but just being charged with bogus charges does a lot of harm to a person's life. Thugs and prosecutors do this and think it is fun. When the victims sue, it is the city that pays, not the people responsible. To make them stop, we need a way to punish them personally.