In the US: participate in Jobs not Wars rallies.

Fossil fuel companies have sabotaged all political efforts to stop global heating. Governments have been corrupted and stopped from really trying.

Only a surprising technical advance — that is, amazingly good luck — can avert global catastrophe if governments fail to try.

Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam describes how he was tortured and convicted in an absurd "trial", then released, and then had the good fortune to be out protesting when the thugs came for him again.

Obama downplays the repression in Bahrain, which his regime supports.

Obama recently repeated that he wants to "close the Guantanamo prison", but what he actually tried to do was continuing holding prisoners without trial indefinitely — just not in Guantanamo.

Obama's statement, "When we transfer detention authority in Afghanistan, the idea that we would still maintain forever a group of individuals who have not been tried, that is contrary to who we are," condemns imprisonment without trial regardless of details. I can't read it any other way. I don't see any weasel-words in that sentence, but when will he start acting accordingly?

Stephen Hawking withdrew from a conference hosted by the President of Israel, after Palestinians colleagues urged him to do so.

I upheld the academic boycott during a visit to Israel and Palestine sponsored by Palestinians, but I don't advocate a complete academic boycott. However, this conference is not an academic event. It is state-sponsored business boosterism.