Five proposals for avoiding the mass extinction we are on the way to cause.

If "Change our economic system so it values nature" means assigning monetary value to wild ecosystems, I fear that will backfire by encouraging them to be purchased and destroyed.

Human Rights Watch says that the Sudanese army is using rape systematically as a method of repression.

US mainstream media decline to call torture what it is, and say they have to "present all sides", but they never show the side of the victims of torture.

Western sanctions are causing economic disaster for Russians. There is no sign Putin personally is suffering, but he is suffering a defeat.

I don't think he will go down passively to defeat. His specialty is attacking in surprising ways, and I think he will do that again.

I also suspect that this is not just a reaction to Putin's aggression in Ukraine. It seems more likely that Western plutocrats used that as an excuse for something they wanted to do anyway.

Three congresscritters got a bill for harsh confrontation with Russia passed by "unanimous consent".

Many pizzas in the US contain more salt than an adult ought to consume in a day.