Military occupation of conquered territory is not supposed to result in long-term repression of nonviolent dissent. A report from Human Rights Watch explains that Israel systematically imprisons Palestinians for nonviolent criticism of the occupation, and for journalism, on strained excuses.

Israeli thugs destroyed the homes and sheep-pens of Palestinian shepherds. People gave them tents, so thugs came back and took away their tents.

This is part of a slow-moving campaign of ethnic cleansing, described by Uri Avnery as aiming to make the West Bank "araberrein".

*The Australian fires are a harbinger of things to come. Don't ignore their warning.*

I am gratified that someone else is using the term "Pyrocene", which is one of the names I recommended for this epoch. However, I now believe that nothing less than "Obscene" does justice to it.

I'd be even more gratified if people started taking sufficient actions to prevent this from getting worse.

The whole world is facing a slow-motion climate emergency. Some places, such as California and now Australia, have reached acute climate emergency.

Normally wet New Zealand is starting to have significant wildfires.

*TV Pundits Praising Suleimani Assassination Neglect to Disclose Ties to Arms Industry.*

Smoke from Australia's fires has a global reach. It has arrived in Chile.