Mark Lynas insists that humanity will triple its energy use, whether that brings global disaster or not; then he hopes it won't. It is the arrogance of shut eyes.

Lynas misrepresents Naomi Klein, who did not call for eliminating the free market, capitalism, and growth. She said we must defeat what I call the plutocratic political system: "privatisation of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and lower corporate taxation, paid for with cuts to public spending."

That system gives the fossil fuel companies the power to block the measures that are needed to avoid disaster, and they are using it with great skill to ensure we charge headlong off the climate cliff.

To reestablish democracy, we must abolish plutocracy. But we can still have private businesses, and economic growth insofar as we can achieve it while keeping resource usage to a sustainable level.

Jessie Hernandez' autopsy suggests thugs lied about the circumstances of shooting her dead: the car was passing them, not heading for them.

Obama absurdly declared Venezuela a "threat to U.S. security", as an excuse to impose economic sanctions.

He is also "concerned" about Venezuela's "human rights violations", such as accusing a few opposition politicians of joining a coup plot allegedly organized by the US (which organized one around 12 years ago) but strangely unconcerned about Saudi Arabia's across-the-board human rights violations or Mexico's.

I really am concerned about the charges against those opposition politicians. They could be valid, but I can't be confident of that, and that is the cause of my concern. I hope they will get fair trials and that they won't be convicted without real proof of complicity.

Everyone: call on California Governor Brown to ban fracking and stop injection of toxic wastes that can pollute water supplies.

US citizens: call on senators to preserve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.