With highway blockades just about the only form of protest that the major media notice, Minnesota is moving to punish them prohibitively.

On the issue, in Paraguay, of permitting reelection of presidents.

Allowing a president to be reelected is not necessarily bad in itself, but it can be part of a scheme to suppress democracy.

President Maduro of Venezuela banned opposition leader Capriles from politics, nominally for 15 years.

This is the act of an arbitrary government, and can't be justified.

He continues arresting opposition politicians.

What makes me sad is that the opposition is right-wing, and its intention is to surrender the country to the multinationals. I can't see a good outcome in any direction.

An indigenous group in Canada rejected a billion dollar offer that involved accepting a natural gas export terminal. Their salmon run, and their global ecosphere, are worth far more than that.

Bravo!

It is becoming increasingly difficult for US states to find drugs to execute people with.

Since I think the death penalty is wrong regardless of how it is carried out, I am bemused by the focus on side issues, such as which people are fit for execution and which are not, or the method to be used.