A large forest fire is burning in the Amazon "rainforest", and has been burning for two months. This suggests o me that there is not as much rain as there normally used to be.

Large parts of Brazil have suffered from an unprecedented drought.

Global heating could play some role in this, but the cutting down of much of the forests are responsible for both.

Criminalizing criticism of officials threatens democracy in Malaysia.

Democracy in Malaysia was never very strong, which makes it even more vulnerable now.

Everyone: call on CNN to replace commentator Harry Houck, who never saw a violent thug he didn't like.

I am looking for people to write site-specific Firefox extensions or local scripts to operate specific web sites.

The history of Selahattin Demirtas and the HD Party.

Erdogan's men blame the two most notorious bombings of Kurds on PISSI, and this could be true, but it doesn't mean Erdogan's men were not involved. Turkey under Erdogan has given PISSI considerable support, including allowing free passage to jihadi recruits.

Erdogan's censorship has convinced most of the public that the Kurds carried out the bombing.

This reminds me of how Dubya's support from right-wing US mass media convinced many Americans that Saddam Hussein collaborated with al-Qa'ida.