John Kiriakou calls for Americans to push for peace, and reminds us that CIA torture was directly approved by Dubya.

Senator McConnell and others are risking shutting down the US government merely to protect publicly traded corporations from being required to disclose their political spending. So not to this.

Most of the UK's brothels are connected to criminal gangs that are involved in other illegal activities.

This is the natural result of prohibiting brothels. When selling alcohol was a crime in the US, the underground alcohol trade was mostly controlled by mafiosi. Now it is mostly controlled by a few large companies, but they are not quite as bad as the mafia. (And our governments could and should have stopped the companies from merging.)

We should legalize them, and regulate them to protect their workers.

The Charlotte thug department released some videos of the killing of Keith Scott, which show he was not threatening anyone.

A hotel where Trump was going to hold an event arrested a journalist who was asking whether he would be allowed into the event.

The right-wing bigotry party in France is excluding some journalists from its rallies, too.