Laying the responsibility of climate change at the feet of individual people by telling them to tinker around the margins of their own actions is like telling someone to stop a reckless driver by turning down the radio or turning up the air conditioning.
Denial Is Not A Strategy for Confronting North Korea
In New Zealand, a Translated ‘Moana’ Bolsters an Indigenous Language
North Korea’s Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say
Russia!
The Brexit no-one wanted
India Cancels Mega Plans To Build Coal Power Stations Due To Falling Solar Energy Prices
For the first time solar is cheaper than coal in India and the implications this has for transforming global energy markets is profound.
Aleppo After the Fall
Incredible look at the state of Syria today
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
Big data meets military psyops meets the far right.
Crazy, alarming story.
It’s time for Scotland to find a new home – in Canada
Love this.
Report: Chechnya Opens ‘Concentration Camp for Homosexuals’
(via y)
This map raises so many interesting issues.
•Scientists Say They’ve Discovered a Hidden Continent Under New Zealand
Scientists say they have identified an underwater continent two-thirds the size of Australia — and they are calling it Zealandia.
Israel’s One-State Reality
Depressing look at the current state of things with Israel and the seeming impossibility of a two-state solution
Trump’s Order Blocks Immigrants at Airports, Stoking Fear Around Globe
Northern Ireland Unity Government Crumbles, Faces March Vote
meanwhile, in non-Trump news
Is Children of Men 2016’s Most Relevant Film?
“Look, I’m absolutely pessimistic about the present,” Cuarón says. “But I’m very optimistic about the future.”