Most deforestation on Earth is done commercially, and half of it is done to get products to sell to the wealthy countries.

Deforestation in the Amazon jumped by almost 1/3 last year.

This Is the Third World War — And This Time We Are on the Fringes.

I think there is some truth in this, but it's not entirely true. Conflict between Shi'ites and Sunnis, like conflict between Catholics and Orthodox and Muslims in the former Yugoslavia, is not inevitable. It is stimulated or provoked by political parties that expect short-term gain, and many of them could theoretically be convinced to stop.

Zoe Quinn is the victim of a campaign of false criticism that was organized dishonestly from the beginning by people that wanted to do her harm.

You can see something similar though smaller in the attacks against me that are posted in some forums. They not only make strained criticism, they also misrepresent the free software movement drastically (as you can see for yourself by comparing their statements with gnu.org).

The leader of a gun control protest in Chicago is receiving death threats from US gun nuts, who call him a "terrorist".

He isn't one, but they and their threats are coming pretty close.

A relationship where the woman says she is scared of the man should not be considered "normal".