The Rolling Jubilee Fund frees Americans from debt-based perpetual punishment by buying their debt and cancelling it.

A company proposes to make beehive-protection AI systems beekeepers' hives.

I forecast these will do to beekeepers what John Deere tracters are doing to farmers.

Majid Khan, prisoner in Guantanamo, has testified about how the US tortured him.

He has confessed to aiding al-Qa'ida, but we cannot know whether he really did so. Torture is quite effective at eliciting false confessions -- that is what it's designed for -- so we cannot presume he deserved the punishment he has already received.

The companies that created the world's biggest environmental problems also launch PR campaigns to distract individuals into striving to reduce their personal contributions to these problems, instead of organizing to change the systems that cause them. They also lull people with the fantasy that they might someday enjoy the life styles of millionaires.

I disagree with Monbiot's dismissal of a carbon tax. If the tax rate is big enough, and schduled to grow steadingly year by year, it can mobilize massive investment in decarbonization along with general divestment from fossil fuel companies. What won't work is a small, token carbon tax.

*Joe Manchin single-handedly denied US families paid leave. *