Australia's record heat waves in January, together with drought, led to very bad fires. But it's only going to get worse.

Hakeem al-Araibi condemned Bahrain's repression 2011, and was tortured for it. He fled to Australia. Thailand grabbed him and was determined to send him to Bahrain for more torture.

Guaidó's supporters are shipping food aid from Colombia as a political gesture. (The US donated the aid as a political gesture.) Maduro's sent troops to block the frontier bridge to Colombia as a political gesture.

They are equally gestures. Nonetheless, there is a moral difference between giving aid as a political gesture and blocking aid as a political gesture.

It seems this is not, as I believed, the bridge I had used to cross to get to Cúcuta — rather, a new bridge constructed in 2015, which has never actually been used.

The article points out there are grounds to suspect the US is including weapons guns in the humanitarian aid.

Indeed, the US could do that. But it should be possible to check the aid to make sure there are no weapons in it.

Glyphosate has been linked to a substantial increase in cancer for the people that spray it.

This demonstrates that the EPA disregarded proper scientific procedure when it judged that glyphosate was safe.

Whether this implies a substantial increase in danger for people who eat food on which glyphosate has been applied, is another question. In principle, the answer might be yes, or it might be no. The increase will surely not be a large percentage, but it might amount to a substantial number of people.

I am interested in seeing the answer, when it is known.

Chelsea Manning has been ordered to testify to a grand jury which hopes to use her testimony to prosecute Julian Assange and/or Wikileaks.

Nine years after the events, she will not remember the details clearly. If they make her answer many questions about them, surely a few of the answers will contradict her testimony from 2013. That would provide an excuse to imprison her.