Megan Rice is likely to be imprisoned for the rest of her life for a protest in which she trespassed in a US military base. The maximum sentence is 30 years, and she is already 83 years old.

Her protest demonstrated that security protecting US atomic weapons is totally inadequate; that alone was a service. She did, and intended, no harm.

Contrast this with Putin's threat of only 15 years' imprisonment for Greenpeace protesters.

The latest election in Bangladesh was won by banning opposition parties.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, no new sanctions against Iran — allow diplomacy to work.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

Everyone: call on the governor of Maryland to reject a huge natural gas export terminal which would push for more fracking.

The idea of making an agreement with the Great Satan is creating deep debates in Iran.