US citizens: write to Obama against the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.

All EU deals for cooperation with Israel are now required to explicitly exclude Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory — specifically, the West Bank.

The Chinese government is persecuting anticorruption activists, thus undermining its own proclaimed campaign against corruption.

The World Bank is once again backing big dams in Africa, despite the visible problems of their previous big dams in Africa.

I wonder if the companies that use most of the electricity from these dams are related to mining. If so, these dams could be regarded as another projection of the political power of the mining companies.

A mining company, freshly given state permission to pollute water supplies, uses masked armed guards to "protect" itself from imaginary violent protesters.