Varoufakis: the creditors did not want a mutually beneficial agreement ; they wanted to impose regime change on Greece.

In effect, they have succeeded, at least for the while.

Varoufakis was wise to resign. Tsipras should have done it, too. If you cannot defeat an invading army, it is better to retreat and remain hostile to it, than surrender and become a pillar for it.

After 5 years, 1/3 of the rules required by the Dodd-Frank banking reform law have not been implemented . The banksters have too much political power.

Even 2C of global heating will make coastal cities such as New York, London and Shanghai uninhabitable . Parts of them will still be above water, but won't function as cities.

You can add Miami, Washington DC, New Orleans, Tokyo, Mumbai and many more.

If we get through this century with technological civilization intact, we may be able to remove lots of CO2 from the atmosphere and convert it to plastic. Perhaps we could cut short the melting that way. But getting through this century will not be easy, so it behooves us to cut CO2 emissions as fast as humanly possible.

We also need to end growth of the human population. In principle, the idea that a person has the right to reproduce without limit is unsustainable.

5 years after the tar sands oil spill on the Kalamazoo river, the spill has not been cleaned up and the toxic chemicals seem to be affecting people's health.

The UK thugs used warrantless digital snooping to find journalists' sources.

The UK must bury the R.I.P. Act which authorizes this.