Paul Erlich notes that ending global heating won't be enough unless we also end human population growth.

Humanity has postponed the disaster that Erlich predicted, by lowering its birth rate, but population continues to grow and the danger is not gone. To lift all humans out of poverty, we need to redirect some of wealthier humans' income to the poor; but this won't work if the poor humans keep making more poor humans.

The TTIP (This Treaty Is Plutocratic) would strip local government of the power to regulate toxic chemicals, including fracking fluids and pesticides.

Responding to criticism of the TTIP, which would offer foreign companies the opportunity to sue when European laws get in their way, the European Commission has proposed to change a few details of the plan, such as its name.

Offering foreign companies this power would be damaging and wrong.

Offering domestic companies this power would be damaging and wrong.

It's good that the TTIP won't offer domestic companies this power.

Even better, it should not offer this power to foreign companies either.

Then they might as well cancel the whole thing.

Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan was apparently tortured to death in Assad's prison.

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign Rep Himes's letter calling for negotiations about Syria.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose CISA.

We have to fight hard now, because Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Symantec just endorsed the bill.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.