Frackers in the UK are seeking a sweeping injunction against all sorts of protesters, to imprison them.

When peaceful protests are broadly forbidden, you can't criticize people for turning to violent opposition.

Inhabitants of low-lying Pacific islands have implored Australia not to fund the proposed new giant coal mine.

This mine would also speed the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

More about the Whitefish scandal.

Afghan Women Beg Key Question: What on Earth Has This War Accomplished?

They don't appreciate any extra freedom that foreign intervention has given them, perhaps because it isn't much freedom, or because in practice they don't dare exercise it.

One thing that they desperately needed, but didn't get, is birth control so that they could avoid having the children that they now can't feed.

Israeli colonists in Palestinian territory regularly steal olives from Palestinians' olive trees. This time, some of them poisoned the trees as well.

In some cases, the Palestinians can't monitor their trees because they need special permits from Israel even to approach them. But if they could stay near the trees to guard them, it wouldn't do much good, since the colonists can maim or kill Palestinians with impunity. Often Israeli soldiers stand by and allow the colonists to do this.