Queensland, the northernmost part of Australia, is encountering the worst wildfire situation ever. A few days ago, hundreds of wildfires were burning. And it is not even summer.

Canada's supreme court ordered a reporter to hand over his notes from an interview with someone accused of being a member of PISSI.

Catching and stopping supporters of PISSI is important, but there were tens of thousands of them and surely still are thousands. Only a few of them could possibly be prosecuted by using reporters' notes, and that would not make much of a dent in PISSI. (Indeed, it required a war to achieve that.) So is it worth endangering the free press to build a case against one member of PISSI? Especially one who is reported to be dead?

I have to suspect that the state's purpose is precisely to intimidate journalists and their sources.

I wonder if journalists could entrust their notes to a sanctuary in another country which won't give them back the notes unless they show they are not threatened.

Progress is being made towards making meat without animals.

I expect it will be a lot more efficient than growing real animals, because only a small fraction of the animal is the meat that people want to eat.

Martin Luther King saw and reproved the elimination of programs to cut poverty, in favor of fighting the Vietnam War.

That war was based on lies about a fictitious attack by North Vietnam, lies which the US government has since admitted.

When will we have a Congress that has the courage to refuse to feed the military-industrial complex, and refuse to fight wars that don't have any justification? Pulling out of the war in Yemen would be a good start.

Israel regularly invites US thugs for training. Now Americans in some places are objecting to this.

What would they learn from Israeli thugs? How to dehumanize?