Filipinas seeking jobs abroad are compelled to borrow money at high interest to pay illegal junk fees.

The current Tory government has set a record for blocking the highest ever fraction of the freedom-of-information requests received.

Prigozhin's maybe-fake coup suggests that Putin's regime is not as secure as he would like us to believe. It follows that Ukraine has the hope of winning the war and kicking Russian troops out of Ukraine.

The article mentions the debate among historians about whether the hard terms in the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, caused widespread suffering that helped Hitler seize power. I think there is a miscommunication in that discussion. The "humiliation" of Germany, that helped Hitler seize power, was the requirement for Germany to pay reparations that it could not possibly pay. Every German felt the suffering from this.

A total military defeat for the Putin forces would not amount to a humiliation like that.

*Current heatwave across US south made five times more likely by climate crisis.*

Sea level rise, caused by human-controlled greenhouse gas emissions is destroying Tuvalu's land area. The country will be gone well before the end of this century.

What we don't know is whether other countries, that won't mostly be inundated by the sea, will survive the other global consequences of our way of life.