Gwynne Dyer

The Amazon is not on fire. There are fires in the Amazon rainforest, as there are every year in July-September, because this is the dry season.

Two great sieges are underway in the Middle East, one in Mosul in Iraq and the other in Aleppo in Syria. They have a great deal in common, including the fact that the attackers both depend heavily on foreign air power, but are treated by most international media as though they were completely different events. How similar they are will become clearer with the passage of time.