Companies use slave labor for their workforce in Eritrea, including a Canadian mining company. The government may not give them any choice about this, but it is wrong to operate in such a country.

A Ukrainian who protested Putin's takeover of the Crimea is now being tried for imaginary crimes that he was tortured into confessing to.

He says the trial is political and bogus. I don't think Putin would permit an honest trial.

I wish that the US could condemn this with a straight face. The US must eliminate the Guantanamo "military tribunals" that were set up to deny defendants their legal rights.

We must not make the mistake of exaggerating either the capacity or the actions of PISSI.

Fires in the US west have exceeded the fire-fighting capacity; 200 soldiers have been sent to help them.

It will be much worse 20 years from now, if we don't stop heating up the Earth's air and seas. Will we learn our lesson now, and stop it?

The US military academies produce careerists that promote arms sales, never win a war, and fail to tell the president when war is a bad idea.