Congress should reduce military spending, not keep it unchanged.

I have a hunch there are military programs that spend a lot of money in West Virginia. Proposing to cut them drastically could persuade Senator Manchin to abolish the filibuster. The security of the US would still be adequate with such cuts.

*Fascism of India's RSS Denounced by European Members of Parliament.*

Brazil-nut hunters are forming cooperatives to get more than a tiny share of the price that we pay for them in foreign countries.

If deforestation turns the Amazon forest into a savannah, the Brazil-nut trees will mostly be wiped out. That alone would be sad but not a disaster; to envision what things will be like in 40 years, imagine that half the things you eat are gone and the other half are too expensive.

British Columbia is allowing the small area of remaining large old-growth trees to be cut down, and activists are blocking the logging teams.

US citizens: call on Biden to Cancel Student Debt.