A last-ditch plan to protect the remaining vaquita porpoises: find them and move them to a protected area.

It could wipe them out, or it could save them. But since they are being wiped out anyway, I think it is better to try it than not to.

Another Tory politician has been connected with hidden offshoring of profits.

Australia is full of introduced feral cats, which have wiped out 20 native species and could wipe out many more.

Bangladeshi clothing factories crushed a week-long strike and protest with the help of thugs. They fired 1500 workers and blacklisted them. This is "free trade" at work.

The article calls this a "blow" to the Bangladeshi clothing industry, but I disagree, because it appears to me that the bad guys won. (Nonetheless, it was a good try!)

A real blow to the industry will be if the workers win.

Looking back over the history of American journalism, we find, about a century ago, that articles based on rumors and lies were common.

The imperialist war against Spain was started through such pressure. The slogan for the war was "Remember the Maine", alluding to a US warship that exploded mysteriously in Havana. The most recent investigation concluded it was an internal explosion.

Movements for independence in Cuba and the Philippines were both crushed by the US, which turned Cuba into a puppet government, and reduced the Philippines to a colony after years of war and repression.