Irish women asked the UN to denounce Ireland's restrictive abortion law.

Nicaragua's is even worse.

The UN client negotiations now have corporate sponsors, in effect corrupting the negotiations directly in addition to the older indirect corruption through governments.

The US Senate has abolished filibusters for presidential nominees.

This will put an end to one form of systematic Republican obstructionism: blocking all Democratic appointments, not bothering to judge them individually.

Joseph Stiglitz: The Insanity of Our Food Policy.

Spain's right-wing austerity government plans to impose heavy fines on protesters, without trial.

You can send your images of Spanish thugs to me; I will find a way to publish them.