Israel is working on legalizing force-feeding of hunger striking prisoners, and says this is imitation of the US.

Facebook deletes postings for obscure reasons, and even denies deleting them. It is not safe as a platform for journalism.

By the way, I cannot understand why people make a fuss about just how they find out that someone they loved is dead. Compared to the fact of that person's death, such those details seem insignificant.

Current greenhouse gas commitments are way insufficient to prevent global heating disaster, says the International Energy Agency.

"Associated Press Publishes Hit Job on Tamir Rice."

Kurds, together with some (I presume) Arab Syrian rebels, are taking a town from PISSI .

The article suggests that supplies flow to PISSI over the Turkish border through the town of Tal Abyad, and now the route is cut. That seems like good news, but it is fishy that Turkey allows these supplies to go to PISSI. If the Kurds can block them, Turkey can surely block them.

As regards Kurds in Turkey, I think that the HD party's electoral success in Turkey will offer Turkish Kurds an attractive peaceful democratic path towards equal rights.