The chief of Australian Customs refused to tell a senator whether a chart of a ship's entry into Indonesian waters is accurate.

In the US: tell Scott you will boycott its products until it drops the Roundup-ready grass.

This GMO grass, engineered to be resistant to Roundup, will not be eaten by humans. But the Roundup could poison people who play on those perfect lawns.

Meanwhile, it will get into all the grass around the US, making organic beef impossible.

The Santa Barbara shootings demonstrate the consequences of NRA lobbying.

Donetsk rebels seized the local airport, and Ukraine immediately counterattacked with air power.

I continue to believe that the Crimea is what Putin really wanted, and that he stirred up trouble in the Eastern Ukraine to draw a line under the seizure of the Crimea.

In European Parliament elections, voters swung to a variety of anti-establishment parties, mostly right-wing.

This article says that the European Union requires fundamental reform. I've been saying so for years: it needs more democracy, and that lack of democracy makes it difficult to change the plutocratic policies of the euro zone.