US citizens: Phone your congresscritter to oppose bills such as HR 3102 that would cut food stamps.

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

After two weeks, protests in Romania against a proposed gold mine are getting even stronger.

The Occupy protests were crushed, but their impact continues.

I applaud Bill Blasio for saying that he as mayor would not have shut down Occupy Wall Street, but the right to protest must not depend on sympathy from the officials of the day. The Plutocratic Party used the protest camps to damage the right to protest in the US. Now we must demand laws to restore it.

A killer pleads self-defense, arguing that the US government has stretched the meaning of "imminent threat" for everyone.

A US judge ruled that the TSA is allowed to lie in response to FOIA requests.