Arguments against Seymour Hersh's claim that Syrian rebels launched a chemical weapons attack with Turkish backing.

I linked to that article previously.

The UK's right-wing government excuses cruelty to disabled people by claiming they are faking disability.

Plutocratist governments know better than to claim "all" poor people are to blame for their own poverty or that "all" disabled people are fakes. Such a simplistic claim would be recognized as false. So they arrange complex systems of rules, artificial hurdles for disabled people to jump, so that anyone who fails can be convicted of "faking" and punished.

The system is stacked against the disabled, which ensures that most of them will fail: this provides an excuse for cruelty, and if a few manage to jump the hurdles, most are still screwed.

The details of these systems are not important; what is important is their overall purpose and effect: dooH niboR. Poverty is spreading because the rich have arranged to take a bigger share of society's production, leaving too little for everyone else. To remedy that, governments must tax the rich more and support the non-rich enough.

In Eastern Ukraine, a chaotic scramble of militias that don't really aim to be more than an excuse for a Russian takeover.

The US is attacking Yemeni Islamists very intensely.

Killing members of a guerrilla group, even fairly many of them, does not defeat it if they can recruit more.

In the US: tell Safeway to label GMOs in their products.