*NAFTA 2.0 Is an Assault on Food, Air, and Water.*

Balancing these new injustices against the elimination of part of the current NAFTA's injustices, I think the new one is less bad.

*'Let's Bring Rumsfeld In': Khanna Calls for Hearings on US Officials Who Lied to American People About Endless Afghan War.*

*Could peace between Ukraine and Russia finally be at hand?*

Putin started that war because having a war there would be convenient for him. The Russian-speaking rebels depended on Russia's military support all along, and without it, I think they would accept some kind of autonomy as part of Ukraine.

*Berlin’s rubbish collection service is urging [people to celebrate by] shopping less, choosing to eat rather than throw away leftovers, and doing a good turn for a neighbour.*

Bravo!

You could also celebrate Grav-Mass.

There must be over 100,000 Europeans who have US citizenship but don't know it. Due to a threat from the US, European banks may now freeze their accounts.

I think it is entirely reasonable for the US to demand its citizens pay taxes on large foreign income. (ISTR that there is already an exemption for up to a certain amount.) However, The US should revise the FATCA law so that the tax applies only to FATCAts, and only to people who have acknowledged US citizenship in some way since attaining adulthood.

The EU should do more than just beg the US to back off. It should protect its citizens by setting up alternative banks which do no business in the US, and legislating that banks which close accounts under threat from FATCA must move the accounts to the alternative banks rather than freeze them.