Doctors, please don't make it necessary for terminally ill people to kill themselves by thirst in a public toilet.

But it is not just terminally ill people. Those who are paralyzed or becoming demented also deserve help escaping to a less horrible fate.

Bravo, Michelle Obama, for refusing to cover your head in Saudi Arabia.

Muslims insist on practicing their own customs when they travel, and demand non-Muslim visitors adopt local religion-associated customs when they travel to a "Muslim" country. They want their customs to override conflicting customs everywhere, and they have no right to that. Either all travelers are free to dress their own way when travelling, or all travellers must adopt local practices (no veil, for instance).

Indeed, the idea of a "Muslim" country is hostile to human rights, just like the idea of a "Christian" country or a "Jewish" country or a "Hindu" country.

Now if the US would only show less respect to the king whose policies include beheadings and whippings and many other sorts of repression.

The Koch brothers plan to spend almost a billion dollars on the 2016 elections.

Americans, there is a simple heuristic for how to vote, if you haven't studied all the candidates' positions: vote for whoever the expensive TV ads attack.

That's the candidate that the plutocrats don't want.

Syriza has started cancelling privatizations and will restore the previous minimum wage.

The Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture.

Ukraine is caught between an alligator (Putin) and quicksand (the plutocratic west).