Humanity has only one chance to avoid global heating disaster. We can't afford to fail this test. Fortunately there is a straightforward solution if only the fossil fuel lobbyists don't stop us.

The National Research Council concludes that the US is not prepared to cope with an oil spill from Arctic Ocean drilling.

Russia is systematically imposing control over all internet use.

The Russian-directed Ukrainian separatists captured a team of EU observers.

Simon Ostrovsky says they tortured him, and he saw several other civilian prisoners there.

Scathing Report Finds School Privatization Hurt Poor [US] Kids.

Modern privatization schemes are designed to label the public schools where lots of poor children go as "failing" as an excuse to privatize them.

It is interesting how the "Rocketship" privatized schools are a nonprofit front for a proprietary software company, whose software, in addition to being an injustice, does not even seem to do any good.

Despite Community Pleas, Three Chicago Schools Slated for Privatization.