The Best Lesson China Could Teach Europe: How to Play the Long Game.

Although democracy is pretty sick in Europe and the US, there remains much more than in China.

Uri Avnery reports on how Israel provoked Palestinians to the string of knife attacks, and how Israelis lynched an innocent man in response to one of them.

Iceland has convicted the executives of failed banks for their frauds, and sentenced them to prison.

Pro-Israeli fanatics attacked a journalist in Paris.

Large fires in Indonesia are deliberately started in order to eliminate rainforests to make room for palm oil plantations.

This not only causes respiratory illness, even in Singapore and Malaysia; it also emits so much CO2 that it is globally significant.

A large Indonesian palm oil producer has adopted a policy to protect forests.

This is just a first step, since we can't take for granted that companies will keep their promises.