Chris Hedges - OpEd News Another jihadi terrorist attack in the United States will extinguish what remains of our anemic democracy. Fear will be even more fervently stoked and manipulated by the state. The remnants of our civil liberties will be abolished. We will beg our masters to save us. We will be paralyzed by the psychosis of permanent war. More here.
WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the richly forested island of Borneo suffers from high rates of deforestation . But understanding this dynamic is made difficult by government secrecy and lack of transparency . More here.
National Observer “'I’m not going to lose my job over a fart joke,'” Dan Murphy recalls Wayne Moriarty, editor-in-chief of The Province newspaper, saying. Story here.