The next climate conference will occur in the UAE, a fossil-fuel kingdom that is attacking Yemen with US support. There is not much hope from an event held there. So Naomi Klein suggests that civil society boycott it and hold a parallel event.

Protests against strict Covid lockdowns have spread in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang.

Facebook closed accounts that it found were spreading false information on behalf of the US government.

CIA officials, appointed by the wrecker, discussed assassinating Julian Assange. Instead they took the slow path that has been in use for several years.

The summary of Assange's history, in that article, is misleading on a number of points. This is a better reference.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposes to deregulate new kinds of nuclear power plants.

They have a history of seeking to please and serve the companies that make nuclear power plants, so such a proposal makes me suspicious. We should not build new, "small" nuclear plants because that is too slow, expensive and risky to be of service in preventing global heating disaster.

To go fast, we need to use the solution that is fastest and cheapest to build: renewable power.