Pakistani Taliban attacked the guards of a polio vaccination team.

A Russian stooge in the Crimea is asking Putin for military assistance, which of course Russia says it will grant.

It also appears someone in the Crimea is fighting back.

A few days ago I suggested that the Crimea should hold a plebiscite in two years to choose whether to be part of Ukraine. I still think that would be the proper course. If the Crimea's inhabitants are determined to rejoin Russia, it would be wrong to stop them by force. However, if Ukraine gets its democratic act together, a couple of years' reflection may convince the Crimeans that being ruled by Putin is undesirable.

Putin does not want them to have a chance to reflect.

The starvation wages of tea pickers in Assam makes their children vulnerable to slave traffickers.

The EPA says it will oppose the Pebble Mine.

I have signed and posted several petitions against that mine.

Global heating in Australia has brought heat waves that kill lots of bats.

This is a sign of the massive extinction that we are bringing on the world. I've seen estimates that 2/3 of all species will be wiped out, but nobody can really predict this; it might be as few as half, or it could be a lot closer to 100%.