The US is dragging its feet in Lima climate talks, acting as if we could take our time curbing global heading slowly.

Obama isn't proposing to stop militarizing US police, only to monitor the process more.

Fracking threatens to exacerbate water shortages in Mexico, earthquakes in China and Indonesia, and wipe out indigenous peoples in some other countries.

All this while encouraging people to keep burning fossil fuel.

A journalist in Bangladesh has been fined for questioning the government's claims about the number of political murders in Bangladesh's war of independence.

Ironically, he was instrumental in calling attention to these murders.

Such vile censorship is not unique to Bangladesh. France has two laws each explicitly prohibiting disagreement with the official views on a particular question. One was adopted just a few years ago.

The rifle manufacturer Kalashnikov, whose weapons are used in wars around the world, now advertises itself as "promoting peace and calm".

Reminds me of how the US renamed the War Department as the "Defense Department".