Uri Avnery on Netanyahu's speech to (not all of) the US Congress.

The US investigation of Michael Brown's killing concluded he had had a fight with the thug while the thug was still in his car, and also that he was facing the thug when he was shot dead.

I am concerned about judging witnesses as credible because their testimony agrees with "other testimony". There may have been a more objective basis not made clear in the article, but the words of the article are consistent with calling witnesses "credible" if they support the conclusion that the investigators have reached.

However, the evidence from bloodstains seems to show it was not murder.

Nairobi National Park is being chopped up by human activity and many species' numbers are dwindling.

Naomi Klein: Deregulated capitalism (plutocracy) blocked correcting the global heating problem when it would have been easy. The bigger changes needed now are blocked also by the "let's be calm and not make any rapid changes" attitude. But we have to take strong measures by 2017 to avoid catastrophic heating (beyond 2 degrees).

I think it is urgently necessary to show the plutocrats that if they kill hundreds of millions of people with global heating, they won't be permitted to keep their own families out of the collective disaster.

Political parties hardly ever touch substantive political questions any more, because they take for granted that anything "bad for business" is out of the question.

The survival of civilization is bad for business, so which side are you on? Plutocracy, or democracy?

A minority can find itself objectively oppressed even if the people in the majority are not individually worse.