US officers are reluctant to bomb ISIS forces, saying they don't have the intelligence to identify them.

On the battlefield, friendly troops tell you where the enemy is. Their supply columns are easy to recognize. This leads me to think that the US is considering assassinations rather than a military operation.

If you need intelligence to recognize the enemy, an air strike is the wrong approach.

Brazilian thugs attacked a protest camp with pepper spray, and shot a journalist rubber-coated steel bullet for no reason.

The world's policy focus on economic growth is a relic of the pre-Reagan period when growth reduced inequality (because the rich hadn't reduced the rest to trickle-down).

Today what we need is to spread the wealth, and that fits the need to reduce humanity's ecological footprint.

Revealed: Germany is Ground Zero for NSA's 'Secret Surveillance Architecture'.

In the UK: join the march against austerity in London on June 21.