If the troll restarts drone bombing in Pakistan, it will be a disaster.

The New America Foundation, a think tank, cancelled its support for a project after it made a posting praising the EU's antitrust judgment against Google.

The head of the think tank revealed, in her words about this, that it is frightened to be associated with statements Google might not like.

After Hurricane Harvey, Will Houston Public Schools Be Charterized?

Thats the sort of exploitation of disasters that Naomi Klein warns us about.

Something must be done to stop Assad from disappearing people.

Many were imprisoned only to use as hostages.

But what can be done.

There are even worse things going on in Syria. For instance, there is PISSI. There is war. There is the danger to refugees that have fled from war. There is the danger that Assad's forces will attack the Kurds once PISSI is defeated militarily. A scheme to end the disappearances has to fit into a scheme to end the other dangers.

Republican bullshitters shrug off Hurricane Harvey. No evidence of global heating can ever be so clear that they can't deny it by lying.