Site original : Richard Stallman's Political Notes
*Rohingya and Myanmar coup survivors launch legal complaint in Germany against junta.* Their accusations include war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide (against the Rohingya, I presume).
I can imagine a verdict of guilty, but in practice, what could the court do to a foreign government? There are already sanctions against it, but since the Burmese state has China's backing, I don't think more western sanctions would make much difference.
A climate defender urged Australian local councils to cut their own emissions, rather than spend millions on overseas carbon offsets.*
Aside from a few peculiar exceptions, Australia's government seems to be very serious about reducing emissions. I hope it adopts a strict policy to limit the sale and purchase of carbon offsets, wildlife offsets, and any other sort of offset.
Pfizer recently raised the prices of 100 drugs in the US. To wipe the bad taste of this from Americans' minds, its PR operation publicizes that it will provide the drug at lower price to some patients in poor countries, and that it is still limiting world-wide production.
US citizens: call on Facebook and Twitter to fact-check disinformation from the wrecker if they allow him to post at all.