Protests in Venezuela fit a long pattern of US destabilization campaigns.

The shortages and the general violence that plague Venezuela are real. They don't justify US destabilization, but they provoke real opposition.

Global heating is projected to increase annual flood damage costs in Europe to around 30 billion dollars a year by 2050.

After that it will get much worse.

It is impossible to remove elephants' tusks and let them return to a normal life. That puts a crimp in the idea of farming elephants for ivory.

UK academics condemn the attempt to turn them into visa police.

Honoring the persecuted dissidents who opposed fighting World War I.

I won't say that the UK (or France, or the US) should have stayed out of World War I, but even without totally agreeing with these dissidents, I can condemn the way they were oppressed by the state.