Survivors report two massacres committed by Mexican thugs.

Clinton remains a militarist, and wants more US intervention in Syria now.

Obama is planning to increase US ground combat against PISSI.

US troops cannot defeat PISSI on the ground, just as they could not defeat the Sunni resistance in Iraq in the last decade. They can only suppress it locally temporarily.

However, he is also willing to include Iran in negotiations about the future of Syria.

This might unblock some log jam.

The European Parliament adopted a "network neutrality" directive that is too weak and vague to do much good.

The Paris conference has given up on establishing a global carbon price. It seems they are not even thinking about the carbon tax that we really need.