California has failed to limit farmers' extraction of ground water. They are pumping so much that the land is sinking up to 2 inches a month in some places.

The unequal sinking is destroying infrastructure.

If normal rainfall returns for a few years, these farms may turn into lakes. But they will dry out again, more or less forever, in a few decades.

Fasting on Thanksgiving in solidarity with the hunger-striking prisoners of Guantanamo.

From France: "Etat d'urgence climatique: mobilisons-nous!"

Many Arab countries have banned a film presenting prostitution in Morocco, and the people who made the film are receiving death threats.

Uri Avnery: the western response to PISSI is feckless and absurd because politicians don't think straight about the problem. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is working to confuse them.