*Wells are running dry in drought-weary Southwest as foreign-owned farms guzzle water to feed cattle overseas.*

It's illegal to sell the water itself, so farmers grow crops that need lots of water, such as alfalfa, and sell the crops. The result is to drain the aquifers.

When money talks, plutocratist politicians say, "Yes sir." If the people of Arizona want to stop this practice, they should elect progressive Democrats.

*The Global Food System Enables Russia to Use Food as a Weapon.*

It can be effective for campaigns to show that prohibiting abortion does harm to Americans' prosperity as well as to human rights.

I personally can't understand the thinking of people who might base their decisions about abortion rights on this. But if it convinces people, that's good.

Legalizing abortion may also save your children's lives. Population growth exacerbates global heating, so more population growth is likely to make global disaster worse and thus reduce the number of humans that survive it, as well as reducing the level of technology they can hold on to.

Even climate scientists who already knew extreme weather was going to become a problem have been nonetheless shocked by how fast and furiously that problem is now growing.

*Cop27 wifi in Egypt blocks human rights and key news websites.* It blocks VPNs as well. The article does not say whether it blocks Tor.

It appears this is nothing special; such censorship is standard in Egypt. Participants in the conference will at least have the chance to learn how repressive Egypt is.