Religion does lots of harm to society.

Saudi Arabia has defined criticism of the state, and any defense of Atheism, as "terrorism".

The US took a start down that path by defining "animal rights terrorism" to include actions such as running a web site or loosing farm animals.

I can understand prosecuting that as destruction of property, but calling it "terrorism" is another example of a lying law.

Israel's cabinet approved a law to officially make non-Jews second-class citizens and remove Arabic as an official language.

This seems ideally calculated to provoke more Israeli Arabs into random acts of violence, but Netanyahu calls it a "deterrent" like other acts of collective punishment.

There is no word on whether Netanyahu also plans to punish Jews collectively for acts such as firebombing Huda Hamaiel's house.

Horrific pictures of casualties don't seem to stop war.

The World Bank says it will "focus" future investments on renewable energy, but falls short of ceasing to invest in fossil fuels.

I am worried by the escape hatch to allow coal investments in cases of "extreme need". Billionaires can claim with a straight face that they have "extreme need" for the profits from a coal mine, and ways to convince politicians to endorse the claim.