The US continues to claim that it works to "promote democracy", although its actions often hardly fit that description.

Convicted anti-fracking protester Natalie Hynde calls for more to resist fracking.

15-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ubaida Asaid, who is imprisoned without charges, needed two hunger strikes to get transferred to a political prison rather than being locked up with criminals.

Companies are trying to make plastic by taking CO₂ out of the air.

Plastics made in this way should not have to compete on an equal basis with plastics made from petroleum. Rather, they should be subsidized through a greenhouse gas emissions tax, which in their case would be negative (a subsidy).

A UN warning: the effect of fracking is to delay the adoption of renewable energy.