Germany and Nordic countries are developing so much renewable electric generation capacity that they can retire some fossil fuel plants.

Detroit's bankruptcy-imposed government continues trying to make people with no income pay high rates for water.

Although Haiti's former dictator "Baby Doc" is dead, his repression continues under President Martelly. Martelly is also fabricating charges against Aristide.

The US intervened shamelessly to make Martelly "president".

An internal report of the CIA found that arming rebels in other countries has almost never been effective.

In many cases it was a good thing that this failed, since the US was attacking governments with local support, for reasons of commercial interest.

Protesters in Mexico continue to demand return of the 43 disappeared students, and also take actions to denounce and apologize for other protesters' violence.

All those mass graves, whether they contain these students or not, are testimony to the violence that Mexico has experienced from the "war on drugs". When a war is on drugs, its violence affects everyone indiscriminately.