Australia's maverick party leader threatens to reverse Queensland's privatizations.

Hooray! Privatization is an assault on the public's assets, carried out by the state as a surrender to the new owners. Those owners must get punished.

Thousands of illegal migrants are trying to get from Africa into Europe by any means possible.

More and more people flee Africa, due to population growth, the corporate land grab, wars over conflict minerals, and global heating. Population growth is mostly the fault of poor Africans; the other causes are not.

Gush Shalom welcomes the Palestinian unity government.

Obama has proposed limits to require reduced CO₂ emissions from existing power plants.

The solution would do a lot of good, but it won't reduce emissions fast enough to avoid disaster.

Carbon offsetting is an unreliable method of reducing emissions.

We could easily to a lot more.

The US will work with the Palestinian unity government.

Netanyahu is finding himself a little less able to extract support from the US government.