A meeting of Nobel peace prize winners was cancelled because South Africa would not give the Dalai Lama a visa to attend.

US protests blocking unloading of Israeli ships have spread to Tampa.

Leaked recordings show that the Federal Reserve is too cozy with Goldman Sachs.

This may be partly because the Federal Reserve is owned by private banks.

A town in Florida is under the perpetual legal control of a rich religious extremist who gets support from religious extremist elected officials and religious extremists on the Supreme Court.

Railroad companies want to take 7 years to replace the explosion-prone tanker cars used for transporting oil.

Instead, transporting oil should simply be banned starting now. Any time some activity with fossil fuel causes a second problem in addition to global heating, we should ban that activity. If we ban enough of them, it may reduce the use of fossil fuel enough to avert global heating disaster.