Texas is considering a bill to abolish use of "prison snitch" testimony, in which a prisoner is effectively bribed to testify that someone else confessed to a crime.

Clinton is going to great lengths not to take a stand about the TPP.

Perhaps she hopes the issue will be resolved before the 2016 election.

That might indeed happen. Perhaps she is waiting to see how much money she can raise without giving explicit support to something the plutocrats want very much.

Either way, this confirms that she cannot be relied on to protect Americans against plutocracy, and is therefore unfit for public office.

Human rights organizations called on the UN to end the "war on drugs".

When a war is on drugs, you must expect it to victimize people indiscriminately.

The Earth's atmospheric CO2 level has now exceeded 400 parts per million.

The rough limit for (probably) avoiding disaster is 350 parts per million.

We need to cut emissions drastically so that they are less than the Earth's natural absorption.

Just What the Doctor Didn't Order: More Media Consolidation.