I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

Melting of the huge Antarctic glaciers, proceeding more rapidly than anticipated, threatens a rise in sea level that will drive tens of millions from the low-lying plains of Bangladesh alone, with disastrous consequences elsewhere.

Anything feasible and potentially effective should be explored.

Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.