It is a mistake to let racist gaffes overshadow the substance of racism.

Although the "president" of the Gambia's men arrest and shoot protesters, people keep protesting.

Due to unprecedented heat, all schools in Delhi have been closed for the summer.

It is not clear that the students will be any safer at home.

Leaked documents about the TTIP show that This Treaty is Indeed Plutocratic. Even more so than we thought: it would give the US and foreign companies a veto over EU regulations.

The leaked text of the TTIP has made the French government reject it. That could kill it entirely, but we cannot take that for granted. The rejection was phrased in nationalist terms. The US might propose "more concessions" (nominally, to France; actually, to the plutocrats and banksters) and France might support it again.

We have to kill it dead. And CETA. And the TPP.

Clinton denounced the TPP only because she needed to compete with Sanders. She has supported business-supremacy treaties for decades. If she wins the Democratic nomination, I expect she will find a way to push for such treaties again.

The breakup of Florida's barrier reef, previously forecast for 2050, is already happening. The cause is human-generated CO₂ that dissolves in the ocean and makes it more acidic.

This is expected to wipe out all coral, later in this century. The result of that would be the extinction of thousands of species and a collapse of fisheries that hundreds of millions of humans depend on for food.