The mainstream US media don't cover the progressive Better Off Budget, but here's some discussion of it.

Greenpeace protesters have sued Russia for seizing their protest ship.

"Food deserts" in Atlanta and Chicago leave many without access to nutritious food. Typically these deserts cover places inhabited by the poor people and nonwhites that also can't afford easily to reach stores further away.

Niger is adopting a scheme to store more food from good years to cope with periods of food shortage.

States have done this for thousands of years, and Niger should do it too. But it needs a companion policy to reduce the birth rate. Without that, the effect will be to turn food insufficiency into a full-time problem.

Commanders blocked a British military investigator from investigating accusations that UK troops in the Bush forces were killing and torturing prisoners.

The Bush forces were the troops that Dubya got from the US military and other armies and turned into his army of conquest for his private unjust war.