Jeremy Leggett, oil geologist, claims that the world's rate of oil extraction will fall short of demand, sometime before 2020, perhaps as soon as 2015. He also says that a transition to renewable energy is within our grasp.

Unfortunately, the Koch Brothers and their pet politicians are working so hard to prevent the transition. A carbon tax is the way to speed it up, so we can migrate as fast as possible, rather than as slow as possible.

A statistical study confirms that the views of non-rich people have negligible effects on US government policies. The rich, and special interest lobbying, have nearly total control.

And that was before the Supreme Court gave companies and rich people even more power to control elections.

Plutocracy has squeezed democracy almost completely out of the US political system. It follows that the US government is not a legitimate government; it is a government of occupation for a colonial system.

Some brave New York City teachers have declared they will refuse to help administer the Common Core tests.

The mayor of Chicago is pushing to replace public schools with charter schools, claiming that the charter schools are superior. A study confirms previous results that charter schools are no better, in educational terms at least.

They must be better for someone. I wonder who, and how much that someone contributes to election campaigns.

Slavishly subservient mining regulators in North Carolina have appealed a court victory that affirmed their power to regulate toxic coal ash.