Families that escaped from Fallujah, sometimes running at night without shoes so PISSI would not shoot them, say that the people who remain there are starving.

I have to wonder whether they are starving because PISSI keeps the food for its soldiers, or starving because the Iraqi army won't let food in, or both.

Unemployment And Austerity 'Increases Cancer Mortality'. Hundreds of thousands may have been killed this way by the effects of the financial crisis.

That crisis was provoked by banksters, and the austerity response was demanded by them. The banksters are responsible for these deaths.

The EU is working on another "trade treaty", with Japan this time.

People had better find out what's in it, because it could be as nasty as the other proposed "trade treaties". Even worse, it could be only half as nasty, in the hope that taking smaller steps towards plutocracy will provoke less resistance.

NO "trade treaty" made by plutocratic governments can be expected to be good for people other than plutocrats.

US citizens: call on Congress not to impose a nondemocratic austerity government on Puerto Rico.

Sanders has good reasons not to throw in the towel to Clinton.