Qatar arrested two German journalists who took video of the working conditions of migrant workers.

At least they were released later. Obama is not so forgiving to whistleblowers, and compare this also with the ag-gag laws of some US states.

A freak early blizzard killed tens of thousands of cattle in South Dakota.

I wonder if global heating had something to do with it.

China conscripts students to work under inhumane conditions in factories making Apple products, Playstations, and other computer products.

The UN Committee on World Food Security has sold out to biofuel interests.

Specifically, the kind of biofuels that substitute for growing food, and use so much fertilizer that they don't reduce fossil fuels.

Other biofuels that don't compete with crops might be a good thing, but they aren't ready for production yet.

The threat to democracy is not subversion but superversion by the plutocrat class that has seceded from all countries.