Australia has created special obstacles to investigating violence by thugs against protesters or bystanders outside the G20 meeting.

Since thugs enjoy near impunity to start with, this means they will be allowed to wreak havoc and repression.

Child poverty has increased in many of the world's wealthiest countries.

That's directly due to plutocratic policies of transferring income to the wealthiest.

Shell asked the US for a 5 year extension in trying to do dangerous underwater oil drilling in the Arctic.

Forecasts of a high rate of US oil and gas extraction turn out to be based on oil company figures that were designed to attract investors. The real potential is much less.

If the worst problem we faced was that oil and gas might become expensive, this would be bad news. However, this is good news since it will encourage investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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