Many food crops are threatened in the long term through the coming likely extinction of their wild relatives.

The way we breed new varieties for desirable traits is by crossing the plants with their wild relatives. When those are gone, this procedure will be impossible.

Local cultivated varieties are in danger too.

The world-wide concentration of agriculture on 12 plant species and 5 animal species is dangerous, because a disease that harms production of any one of them is an automatic disaster.

Vietnam is intensifying repression against all sorts of dissidents.

SCROTUS are trying to nullify a ruling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would protect individuals from arbitration requirements from sleazy financial organizations such as Wells Fargo and Equifax.

An undercover reporter demonstrated how the privatized guards in UK immigration prison get away with gross violence against prisoners.

It's hard enough to stop guards that are state employees from giving way to their cruelty. Privatization creates another level of inaccountability.

The injustice of prohibiting people from covering their faces in public is found in Virginia as well as in France.