The folly and impudence of the fossil fuel industry knows no bounds. Some are looking for ways to extract and burn undersea methane hydrates.

Methane hydrates under the land or sea are tremendously dangerous, since global heating causes them to leak into the air, where the methane becomes a powerful greenhouse gas. This is one of the positive feedback cycles that could accelerate global heating,

It is pointless to consider using them, since the known fossil fuel reserves are five times what we dare burn. Meanwhile, messing with the deposits in any way could easily make more methane leak out (as fracking already does).

I suspect that fossil fuel industry funding or lobbying is behind these studies.

The drought in California is forcing ranchers to move lots of cattle out of that state.

Global heating is expected to cause more and worse droughts there and in the US southwest.

China has published 1940s documents that prove the Japanese army forced Korean women to be prostitutes for Japanese soldiers in China.

Many nations have atrocities in their history — Japan is not uniquely bad. (The US has quite a few.) Nations that deny their atrocities get twisted up in a net of lies that prepares them to commit more atrocities.

Kerry has started to put verbal pressure on Israel to make peace.

It is not much, but it is a start. Defying the Israeli hawks' lobby is the only way to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine.

An Egyptian court has convicted 683 members of the Muslim Brotherhood and sentenced them to death after a one-sided trial (no defense possible).