Hotter summers are killing people in Sweden, as well as China and the US.

Imagine how bad it will be when the average global temperature is 4C hotter, or even 6C hotter.

Canada is on track to exceed its 2020 CO₂ emission target by almost 20%.

Iraqis think their country should be united, but nobody sees how that could happen.

Iraq's divisions have been sucked into the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict, which is itself largely the result of Bush's invasion of Iraqi.

Robert Fisk says the US is taking the Sunni side, but the recent Saudi outburst seems to indicate that the rulers are not satisfied and want the US to do so even more strongly.

Murdoch's newspapers turn the facts upside down, condemning the US for fining fraudulent banks a small fraction of what they gained.

I've moved out most of the money I had in (what had merged into) a big bank. Have you?

Meet the Private Companies Helping Cops Spy on Protesters.

An initiative petition in Switzerland proposes limiting an executive's pay to 12 times the least paid staff of the company.

I agree with this in principle, but I fear it will lead to more subcontracting of the lowest-paid workers. Thus, it needs a companion measure to prevent a change in that direction. Since contracting out work is an avenue for so many abuses, including some that endanger workers' lives or encourage fraud, we need to limit it in any case.