Rebecca Solnit: *A planet in peril and so many Big Brothers: George Orwell would have been shocked.*

I hope some one can inform Solnit that some of us do not "opt in" to this surveillance and manipulation.

Australia's new government has recognized that its carbon offset scheme is bogus.

That is true elsewhere, too. I hope other governments will recognize it.

In Poland, as in the US, right-wing Christians attacked abortion rights by taking over the country's supreme court.

A summary of key points in Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony.

*"Hutchinson's testimony of the deeply detailed plans of January 6 and the inaction of those in the White House in response to the violence show just how close we came to a coup."*

*War on drugs prolonged Colombia’s decades-long civil war, landmark report finds.*

The leftist guerrilla movements started fighting against the inequality of Colombia, but over the decades turned to drugs for financing and got sucked into that.