*New[ly released old] Documents Show Exxon Executives Cast Doubt on Climate Science to Protect Profits.*

* ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and [global heating].*

In 2008, Exxon said it would stop supporting climate-denialist groups but it continued to support influentia; individual climate-denialists.

The government of Victoria got advice about tobacco policies from the PR company KPMG which has a long association with tobacco companies. This was, in effect, giving those companies special influence over the policies meant to protect the public from their addictive, disease-causing product.

A right-wing extremist is likely to be elected mayor of a city in Germany. He has condemned the activities to remind Germans of the evil of the Holoaust.

I don't see in the article that he endorses antisemitism, but I think the AfD party is heading in a direction which will get there soon.

Another politician in that party is being tried for using a Nazi slogan.

I abhor censorship of anything, even Nazism, because censorship opens the door to tyranny. However, so does Nazism, and more generally fascism. I am not sure which is the bigger danger.

A study has found that "carbon offsets" as certified by Verra are misleading and ineffective.

The Starbucks workers' union is considering calling for a consumer boycott.

Why wait? You can start boycotting now. I would, except that I never buy from Starbucks anyway — its products don't appeal to me.