Many examples demonstrate that humans can practice democracy and make it work. The US is having trouble because Americans have not recognized that they need to unite to take power away from the plutocrats.

Wales will pledge not to open any new coal mines.

Most coal mining in the UK, perhaps all, was shut down in the 1980s because the underground mines were more expensive than blowing off mountaintops in Appalachia.

Wales has also banned fracking.

No matter that the US mass media are so right-wing that they praise plans to cut back on civil rights for queer people, the right-wingers claim the mass media have a "Liberal bias".

Amnesty International: Mexico must not deport anyone to Honduras or Guatemala who would face danger there.

South Korea threatens to imprison South Koreans for using marijuana even if they do it in places where it is legal to do so.

I dislike this article greatly. It asserts that South Koreans couldn't possibly use marijuana in defiance of that law. And it seems to endorse the idea that that law makes the South Koreans wrong for using marijuana, rather than making the country wrong for having the law.