Russia has effectively declared war on Ukraine.

Tennessee State University has ordered all staff and students to wear visible ID tags at all times, and plans to equip them with pox chips to track them in all their activities.

I urge everyone to quit or transfer in protest.

The US is force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike in a prison that is "a cleaner version of hell".

Some of these prisoners have been in solitary confinement for many years. No one deserves such treatment, not even a mass-murderer like Dubya. Everyone, even a prisoner, is entitled to the right to refuse food and die.

Protesters and government supporters have been killed in Venezuela, but not many of either side.

Republicans are desperate to repeal Obama's health care plan but have given up talking about what to replace it with.