Interviews with civilians and rebel fighters in Burma.

The US and Europe have little influence to stop the military repression, because China supports it and Burma shares a frontier with China. Chinese neocolonialism is much like Americans neocolonialism except that China has no worries about criticism from Chinese public opinion.

The rebels refer to the military government and its army as "Bamar". That is the name of the majority ethnic group which translates in English as "Burmese". What this says to me is that the rebels think of this as a war against the majority ethnic group.

I find that quite sad. It is much easier to defeat a government conclusively than to defeat the majority ethnic group conclusively. The former can have an outcome that is good for just about everyone except the ruling elite. It is hard to do that in the latter case.

*Methane reduction holds key to averting climate catastrophe [in the short term].*

US citizens: call on Congress to eliminate tax-exempt status for major sports leagues. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

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US citizens: call on US officials to meet and talk with the Russian ambassador about smaller disputes that might perhaps be resolved.