A protester talks about the campaign to make Barclays Bank stop financing fossil fuels.

Egyptian journalist Osama Gaweesh, who would surely be a political prisoner if he were still in Turkey, has been waiting a year for the UK to decide whether to give him asylum. In the meantime, he cannot work and has to live on around 7 dollars a day.

An Australian studying in North Korea says that the North Koreans don't resemble "stereotypical 'brainwashed' people."

That's because the stereotype is not representative of people who have been brainwashed since childhood.

With plutocracy dominating even the "wealthy" countries, the poor countries have no hope of being rescued from their crushing debts.

The numskull's gave the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline a permit _again_ because the first one was blocked by a court.

This looks silly. Perhaps it really is silly, and meant only for distraction, but I wonder — could it be that the second permit is somehow different from the first, and might force a different ruling? Is it meant to provide an opportunity to go to a different court and perhaps get a different ruling?