The fossil UK government has succeeded in stopping the growth of solar power.

Solar power threatens the fossil fuel companies that the Tories consistently represent. They might have preferred to cut all support for renewable energy as soon as they first got into power, but that would have been obvious. By cutting a part at a time, and sometimes replacing a bigger program with a different but smaller program, they were more successful at denying what they were really doing.

The war in Afghanistan has got more complex, as the Taliban are rivaled by the even more vicious Pseudo-Islamic State.

Varoufakis says that the Greek tax collection computer system is directly controlled by foreign creditor organizations, and that he had to crack the system to set up an alternative system.

The creditor organizations say it is not true, but I trust Varoufakis and not them. They could be twisting language.

Yanis Varoufakis Is Being Pilloried for Doing What Had to be Done.

US prosecutors are desperately trying to defeat the SAFE Act, a bill that would end mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug crimes, on the grounds that we're winning and losing the War on Drugs and need every possible weapon for it.

I've posted action notes calling for support of the SAFE Act.

We don't need "tools" to fight the War on Drugs, because it was a misguided project from the start. We should end it instead.

When a war is on drugs, we must expect it to engage in random violence, and that's exactly what happens.

Patricia Cameron burned a confederate flag on July 4, at a rally in a park. A thug who habitually annoys her arrested her out of bed at midnight, weeks later, for using a grill in the park.