The Syrians fighting the Islamic State of Iraq include al-Nusra, another al-Qa'ida supporter.

Honduran peasants' land was stolen to grow palm oil, which provides "carbon offsets" for international businesses, so they can avoid cutting emissions. Crushing the resistance peasants' resistance seems to have part of the motive for the coup.

Emissions trading is a mistake in general; it has been gamed so much that it achieves nothing, while promoting evil like this in Honduras. A tax on fuels can't be gamed.

Journalists in Burma protested the jailing of a journalist.

The charges are typical of states that want to punish journalism and pretend that it is something else.

The UK government announces more punishment for Britons on the way to a mythical, meaningless "recovery".

Peace negotiations in South Sudan failed to get started.

Part of the basis for the fighting is tribal hatred, but when interethnic hostility reaches the point of fighting, often it has been stirred up by politicians.

I have a suspicion that the oil in the ground has something to do with it, and that the US government is playing some sort of game to get control of that oil.