Sunni tribal leaders in Iraq do not trust Obama's new "Iraqi government" not to oppress them, so they feel they must stay on the side of PISSI.

Naomi Klein says, although private businesses invest in renewable energy for their own interests, we need four times as much investment as what they are doing, and there is no reason to expect businesses to go that far without the state's help or pressure.

The enormous government subsidies for fossil fuels are pertinent here, because they push the market towards fossil fuels, and will continue to do so. Transferring the subsidy to renewables would push the market towards renewables, and a carbon tax would do likewise.

Uri Avnery: What do Netanyahu's and Abbas's UN speeches mean?

The more subtle form of global heating denial: rather than denying outright that fossil fuels are making the Earth hotter, simply ignoring this in discussing issues where it is significant.

A Hong Kong opposition legislator accuses the government of sending gangsters to attack the protesters.

It looks like the thugs, or some of them, cooperated with the gangsters.

Even if some of the anti-protesters are being honest about their motives, they are unpatriotic to put their immediate income above democracy. Shame on them!

Naturally, China's imposed "chief executive" cites the danger of more such nonuniformed attacks against the protests as an excuse to order a uniformed attack against the protest. That's tyrant logic for you. We should be prepared to denounce it when we see it in our own countries.