The UK's right-wing government is planning big cuts in school funds for non-rich children.

Most of them will only be able to get crap jobs, and right-wingers will say it's their own fault — pointing, as they do, to the brightest few who overcame this handicap, as "proof" that the rest are no good.

The masters of the euro zone must accept that Greece will never repay its current debts. One way or another, those debts will be cancelled. Why not cancel them now?

The EPA recognizes that greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft endanger human health, so it will implement an international plan to limit those emissions.

Too bad the proposed standard is so weak it will hardly do any good.

Greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, mainly through the risk of food shortages, spreading diseases, and war. We need to act on all the major causes of emissions.

How Obama Went From Being a Peace Candidate to a War President.

He has used the US power foolishly, to no good — in many cases, not good even for US plutocrats (except military and surveillance contractors).

Obama will send a few hundred more trainers to Iraq.

I see nothing particularly bad about this move, but it is unlikely to make much of a difference. When the Iraqi army abandoned Ramadi in May, they did so in fear of the suicide bombings carried out in humvees that PISSI had captured from the Iraqi army in Mosul. Training alone won't make troops stand up to that. They have to be fighting for something they care about very strongly.

Kurdish peshmerga can do this; they are fighting to prevent a massacre of their people. Does Obama think he can convince soldiers to do this for the Iraqi government?

Right-wing school privatization made the Swedish school system less capable. Will the US and UK learn to stop following its bad example?