A few links.

Paul Street responds to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize (ZNet article)

Al Jazeera reports on the plight of Sri Lankan war refugees kept in "welfare camps" (video).

Landartgenerator.org graphically demonstrates the surface area required to solar power the world & the surface area required to power the world with off shore wind power alone. (For more detail see here)

Strangemaps exposes the inadequacy of using potential GDP to measure of the impact climate change.

The excellent Adam Curtis blogs about the history of the Congo & Kabul

Bensix looks at the Tories and foreign policy

George Monbiot highlights government and military police collusion to prevent justice.

Laurie Penny - inspiring diary piece.