The US is blocking the full adoption and effective enforcement of many crucial treaties.

To present one extreme example, every member of the UN has ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity, except for the US.

Ralph Nader: As Republicans push numerous plans that most Americans would oppose, most Democratic candidates fail to go on the offensive against them.

The Tories want to start a new coal mine in England, so they claim that steelmaking companies want that coal.

Turns out, they don't.

Others say it is a boondoggle to artificially create jobs in a certain region. That could be true, but why do it this way? There are many kinds of jobs that could really be needed. Indeed, Many of the region's inhabitants oppose the mine.

I suspect that the Tories' real motive is to help some rich donor get richer.

*US Can End Its Complicity in Horrendous Yemen War Today.*

What's at stake in the biodiversity conference? *We are tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth.*