An oil spill from a ship carrying oil from the Trans Mountain Pipeline would do lasting damage to ocean life, including species we want to preserve as well as species we eat.

However, that local calamity would be just a footnote compared to the disaster that will be caused when the oil does not spill. We need to leave 80% of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, and since tar sands oil has a particularly high ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to energy delivered, the tar sands oil should be first.

Canadian indigenous peoples are determined to block all new pipelines for export of tar sands oil.

After facing international pressure, Egypt freed a visiting student who took a photo from the plane's window which happened to include a photo of a military aircraft at the same airport.

Why risk visiting a country that arrests people for absurd reasons?

"Britain's long tradition of respect for human rights is under threat."

I would say the threat started in the 90s when the UK started repealing some of the traditional "rights of Englishmen"; this included adopting censorship based on various reasons including mere opinions that are nasty, and punishment based on suspicion.

400 leaders of various churches protested at the San Diego border fence supporting asylum seekers.

Teachers went on strike in a Chicago charter school chain. Its CEO gets a high salary; they don't.

They will get somewhat better pay and working conditions as a result of the strike.