Approaches for resisting climate trumpery so as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Food and Water Watch says that protecting food and water safety now requires avoiding climate chaos, so it intends to campaign for that.

"There can be no greater crime against humanity than the foreseeable, and methodical, destruction of conditions that make human life possible."

Interviews with women in the army of the Syrian Kurds.

The few refugees that escape from Raqqa confirm that the civilians there are faced with starvation if they stay, but PISSI will try to kill them if they leave. While there, they are used as human shields.

The US persistently refuses to give the Kurds much in the way of weapons. I think the US has been planning all along to betray the Kurds to Turkey once PISSI is defeated. The increasing tyranny of Erdoğan apparently appeals to the troll, which makes that suspicion even more plausible.

US troops have returned to Helmand, where their previous "victory" proved to be entirely transitory.

The US-supported Afghan government cannot defeat the Taliban. It can't even stand against the Taliban for more than a few years without US troops to prop it up. But US soldiers can't defeat the Taliban either. They can only push it down.

The Taliban are stronger than the corrupt Afghan government because the Taliban inspire real support from a segment of the population, but the Afghan government gets no support except what it pays for.

Is it worth a forever war just to keep the Taliban from winning in Afghanistan?

Taser is storing the video from thugs' body cameras, and wants to analyze it all.

Body camera footage should be saved only when there is a specific justification for doing so These videos should be held by the state and used only as evidence for specific crimes, as specified by law. No company should ever get its hands on any of these videos, except those which are published.

It would be easy for an internet army to rig the 2018 election.

Of course, it is even easier for insiders. It is a mistake to depend on computers for elections.

However, saving paper ballots for an audit is no use if state laws make recounts almost impossible, as we discovered in 2016.