Canada's extraction lobbyist hopes that more disasters with oil trains will convince the US to approve Keystone XL.

However, looking at the harm done by extracting it as well as by burning it the best option is to stop transporting that oil in any way.

The head of the Lib Dems says he won't let the UK be lured into war with ISIS by provocative videos. There are surely some US politicians that are wise enough to reject that, but the mainstream media don't present them much.

A large fraction of the workers in Malaysia's electronics factories are enslaved.

Darrien Hunts' sword had a rounded edge, so he could hardly have seriously threatened anyone with it. It appears that, before the thugs shot him, he was making moves with the sword as a form of pretend play, away from other people.

The most dangerous looking thing about him was his skin color. If you're a black male, in the US, people will often perceive your actions as dangerous; if a while male did the same thing, people would not consider it dangerous. Over and over, this leads thugs to kill innocent people.

What can be learned about Ton Siedsma from one week of his metadata? Quite a lot.