Joining the TPP would ruin the UK's plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Other business-supremacy treaties are already making it hard to reduce emissions.

*15 Million People [in the US] Could Lose [medical] Coverage as Nightmarish Medicaid 'Purge' Begins.*

It starts with five states suffering under Republican rule.

Formerly interhostile Palestinian factions in the West Bank are joining to fight Israelis; the two sides regularly kill each other.

The article describes repeated Israeli attacks as "in response to" repeated Palestinian attacks. That asymmetry seems arbitrary: this looks like a cycle in which each attack inspires an attack by the other side. Each side is constantly retaliating for what the other side is constantly doing, and vice versa.

If Israel had protected Palestinians who were not violent, and respected their rights at least somewhat, the Palestinian Authority could have validly said it was providing benefits to the Palestinians. But Israel did not do enough to restrain its fanatics, so the Palestinian Authority could not gain anything by recognizing Israel's authority.

I suspect that the fanatical Israeli annexationists aim to whip up all-out war, figuring that they can make that an opportunity for ethnic cleansing, as Uri Avnery said was their goal.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose cutting SNAP, which provides food benefits to poor people. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on Congress to disqualify the wrecker from running for federal office, on the grounds of his call for violence if he is arrested.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!