*What to Do When the World Is on Fire.* Government policies should encourage localized and diversified agriculture, using methods that improve the land and retain water, should replace the encouragement of monocultures controlled by megacorporations.

I don't want to live on a farm; I would feel isolated and bored there. But many people would really love to do this, if government policies encouraged hiring intelligent workers rather than buying "intelligent" tractors with proprietary software and DRM.

Armed fascist demonstrators invade Portland every day and confront antifascist and BLM protesters, occasionally committing violence against them, against reporters, and against bystanders. The thugs tend to let them do it.

Craig Murray's coverage of three more sessions of the Assange extradition hearing.

To what extent should businesses be able to order stars not to wear clothing that supports political causes?

Political rights cannot discriminate between one political view and another. Where and when BLM slogans are permitted, so are right-wing slogans.

The heating of upper levels of the ocean is making hurricanes stronger and interfering with vertical mixing of the water. It also causes a positive feedback by confining further heating to the surface level.