*Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency [showed] that senior staff have made chemicals appear safer by minimizing the estimates of how much is released into the environment.*

*Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency [showed] that senior staff have made chemicals appear safer by minimizing the estimates of how much is released into the environment.*

The Pentagon acknowledged its last drone strike in Kabul was targeted by mistake at a civilian family. The military personnel believed they had seen people loading explosives into the car, but what they saw was not explosives. It was perfectly innocent.

The US stubbornly denied established facts about civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq and other theaters of its "global war on terrorism", to the point of becoming famous for denialism. I hope that the admission of this mistake represents the start of a new US policy of honesty about civilian casualties.

It is impossible to avoid accidental casualties in war. But it is possible to avoid compounding the error by lying about them. Also, once the US starts being honest about them, it will tend to be more serious about considering the reasons to end end a war.

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A House committee has asked fossil fuel CEOs and lobbyists to testify.

At the moment they are asking for voluntary testimony, but I think the idea is to give them subpoenas if they refuse.

Protesters demanded the resignation or termination of the US Ambassador to India for publicly showing support for the violent Hinduismists of the RSS.

Hinduismists are to Hinduism as Islamists are to Islam.