Many Iranians can only support a fictional candidate for president.

In the US, things are not that far gone. We can vote for candidates that stand for good principles; we just know that it would be a miracle for one of them to win.

Murder out of superstition didn't disappear after the Salem witch trials. It still occurs today.

UNESCO is trying to save the Great Barrier Reef from damage from coal shipments, but half its coral is dead already due to environmental degradation and global heating.

Ocean acidification will kill all the rest, if we burn all that coal.

Hollywood influence threatens to block a proposed treaty for a copyright exception for books for blind people.

I have mixed feelings about this treaty. Blind people deserve to escape from digital handcuffs, and so do the rest of us. A treaty that removes some of the harmful effect on blind people is a step towards that goal, but it might also serve as an excuse to resist the further change needed to free the rest of us.

I think, therefore, that we should direct our efforts towards the cause of abolishing DRM, not this treaty.

In the US: call on Publix to join the agreement to demand decent working conditions for the farm workers who grow its tomatoes.