US states are escalating the war on painkillers: states are passing laws making it hard to prescribe them enough to treat some peoples' pain.

Millions of people are likely to face horrible suffering from this. In effect, the law not only authorizes but requires torture.

As thousands starved during the Irish famine, plenty of food was produced in Ireland but the farm owners exported it.

This is what happens when the rich dominate society. Similar things are happening today, though not in Ireland.

Unanswered questions about the scope of NSA snooping.

Disappeared Hong Kong booksellers/publishers have been charged with illegally selling books in China. Reportedly the books they supposedly sold were made by the Chinese state in order to frame them.

US citizens: call on Obama to cancel oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean.