Australia and Canada have made a boil-the-Earth global heating axis.

The US government puts non-citizens into special privatized prisons where they are treated horribly.

Americans, how would you feel if some other country gave special bad treatment to prisoners who are US citizens, because they are foreigners? This is the same.

Extraction of oil is becoming too expensive for oil companies, so the rate of extraction will have to decrease.

Some companies are writing off substantial amounts of supposed reserves, but this is not yet proceeding at the rate needed to eliminate the carbon bubble.

The Koch brothers will try to force the US to move towards toxic coal rather than towards renewable energy and efficiency improvements.

A Belarusian politician, from Belarus's short period of democracy, says that Soviet-style government is making a comeback.

Democracy still exists in parts of the old Soviet Union, such as the Baltic states, Georgia, Armenia, and in Ukraine more or less. In addition, Kyrgyzstan has a fragile democracy.

Slavoj Žižek on Ukraine.

How ironic is the Russian admiration of Stalin as a sort of great fascist.