The World Bank supported a reserve to protect chimpanzees, a species now endangered. It also proposes to support a dam that would flood the reserve.

Why the French working class abandoned the Communist Party for right-wing extremism: it wasn't about the philosophies the two stood for.

North Korea has been hit with a drought and heat wave that could result in crop failure and then massive starvation.

Ironically, it is largely the US that is responsible for the global heating that is largely responsible for heat waves and droughts today.

Government advice about drugs and health tends to be perverted by rigid morality which assumes using drugs is immoral.

There is a proposal that the reason total alcohol abstainers in middle age tend statistically to show worse health than moderate drinkers is that a substantial fraction of them are alcoholics on the wagon, who would be suffering damage from their previous heavy drinking. It would be interesting to study whether that is the case.

Bahrain is killing imprisoned dissident Hassan Mushaima by denying him medical care.

Bahrain repressed a campaign for democracy and human rights with the help of troops from Salafi Arabia.