A future historian writes about how 21st century civilization allowed itself to be destroyed unresisting by global heating.

It is an understatement to say that "Western" civilization faces destruction. Civilization will be hit globally. China will not escape; Shanghai and Suzhou face inundation.

I say "global heating", not "climate change", because the latter term was coined by the denial lobby as a way to downplay the threat, then adopted by environmentalists as a fundamentally misguided attempt to "compromise" with denialists.

In US media, the crisis in Iraq is because the Bush forces left, not because they invaded.

US citizens: tell Obama, don't bomb Iraq.

Egyptian President al-Sisi is leading a campaign against sexual violence.

Although there are reasons to doubt whether he can or will make progress on this, I think we should give him a chance to succeed. However, we must not let this distract us from his repression. Jailing rapists it is no excuse for jailing journalists and dissidents.

The US says that Russia is letting Ukrainian separatists collect obsolete tanks and surplus multiple rocket launchers, which they take into Ukraine.