It's Time to Shout Stop on This War on the Living World.

The world needs economic growth for the benefit of the poor, which can be done together with less waste for the rich; but that is not what plutocratic governments are likely to do.

Uri Avnery: Palestinian President Abbas offers Israel a partner for negotiations, provided the negotiations are sincere.

Avnery says it is an exaggeration to call the attack on Gaza "genocide", but according to the official definition, the accusation may be valid.

This case, imposing destructive conditions of life on a part of the targeted people that are likely to kill some fraction of the victims, but nowhere near all of the victims, seems to be an edge case. I tend to think it should not be considered genocide. The official definition may be a little too broad, depending on how it is interpreted.

However, I think that is a side issue. Provoking a war as an opportunity to kill and wound 10,000 people is a great crime regardless of whether it qualifies as "genocide".

A commercial carbon-capture coal-burning power plant has opened.

In principle this can be part of a solution for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. If other forms of fossil fuel are cheaper, a simple tax can make them more expensive.

Subsidizing fossil fuel use is harmful, but subsidizing a decrease in the CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use makes sense.

The UK has grown in GDP since the economic crisis, but workers' pay remains lower than it was before the crisis.

The average decrease is just a few percent, so the UK government plans to cut aid to the working poor.

The Tories won't be satisfied until they have millions of Britons living in closets.

Another danger from fracking: mining the fine-grain sand it uses can poison water and air.