Chevron has abandoned plans to drill in Canadian Arctic waters, acknowledging it is unable to meet safety requirements.

Nobody can drill safely in Arctic waters. Even drilling safely in the Gulf of Mexico is not to be counted on.

Inequality of wealth distribution in the US continues to increase.

In one province of Pakistan, 40% of all criminal trials label the defendant a "terrorist". In most of those cases, there was nothing remotely terrorist about them. And Pakistan is about to execute someone based on a confession beaten out of him when he was 15 years old.

As Pakistan fights the Taliban, I hope the thirst for "blood" does not lead to more injustice like these.

Everyone: call on FIFA to insist that Qatar put an end to slave labor conditions in construction for the World Cup.

The London bicycle rental scheme tracks all its users.

Amazingly, the company published a data base, thinly anonymized, that allows anyone to try to figure out who each user is. But I think that's just a minor add-on to the bigger danger of Big Brother, who already knows who they are.