Australia's PM argues against the danger of global heating using a fallacy so dumb that anyone can see through it.

It's not that he's stupid, but rather than he is confident that support for his statements will drown out all attempts to point out the flaw in them, thanks to the influence which the fossil fuel companies exercise over the mainstream media along with him.

The Taliban committed a Bush-style wedding massacre, and the villagers took revenge on a suspected Taliban sympathiser.

If enough Afgans feel this way, the Taliban will lose; but there's a long way to go before that happens.

Obama seems to want planned Syrian peace negotiations to start an Oslo-style process of endless negotiations that arrive nowhere.

This reflects the fundamental problem of the Syrian rebels: they are divided, and the strongest factions are as vicious as Assad's regime.

With JPMorgan Under Spotlight, Growing Calls to Jail the Banksters.

A citizen planted flowers in unused flower boxes in the DC Metro. Someone tore them out. Perhaps the Metro tore out the flowers because they were unauthorized and unapproved.