Australia is using the Paris climate agreement as an excuse to justify a new coal mine.

"Surely the government will make other cuts to cancel out the enormous emissions from this coal" is an absurd argument, given that in fact the Australian government is doing everything possible to keep emissions high.

The officials' strings are surely being pulled by the coal company's money, as part of a global plan to reject necessary cuts even though that is likely to kill billions. That the killing is not their goal, merely a byproduct, is no excuse for it.

The Financial Powers Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline Must Be Confronted.

Maine Governor LePage said he supports Trump to provide "authoritarian power" because Obama is an "autocrat" (?!).

The DEA is starting to reconsider its plan to prohibit kratom.

Democrats are using disinformation against the documents that Wikileaks honestly releases.

Glenn Greenwald punctures the Democrats' invalid criticisms of the publication of the leaks.

I agree with Greenwald that Wikileaks should have omitted personal information that could hurt people and is politically irrelevant. However, the Democratic Party should focus on correcting its wrongs rather than on criticizing those that expose them. And it must stop arguing that people should help cover up those wrongs, because Trump.

Google has warned some Russians that the Russian government is trying to crack their accounts.