Western volunteers are helping Syrian Kurds fight PISSI.

We should encourage such volunteers. They will absorb the firmness and esprit de corps of the peshmerga, which training Iraqi troops hasn't a ghost of a chance of doing. Furthermore that boosts an army not based on ethnic or sectarian bigotry, one that any Iraqi who wants peace and justice would welcome in.

US citizens: call on the Senate to support an anti-torture amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.

Also phone your senators and say, vote no to the NDAA if it authorizes punishment without trial.

US citizens: Call on your senators to reject Cotton's amendment 1605, that would block dismantling nuclear weapons or reducing their level of alert.

For the Associated Press, being shot by a thug makes you a "suspect", automatically.

US citizens: call on the Fish and Wildlife Service to close the loopholes in protection of migratory birds.