The Lord's Resistance Army is killing elephants for ivory.

It used to kidnap children and conscript them.

Prize-winning Swiss journalist Ludovic Rocchi has been arrested for writing about plagiarism in a Swiss university.

Independent of the facts of this case, for "defamation" to be a crime is injustice in itself.

In the US, it's easier to buy an assault weapon than to vote.

Rep. Grayson says the US government has shown him nothing that ties chemical attacks in Syria to Assad's men.

Kerry and McCain are citing an "expert" who is a paid lobbyist for the anti-Assad forces, and connected with a right-wing think tank that generally wants military escalation.

What Obama and Kerry say now is "just trust me", but former US intelligence professionals say they are misleading us. Here's why.

I will trust Thomas Drake, a heroic whistleblower, over Obama or Kerry on anything at any time.

The US government deficit is now back to normal levels, which is bad since what we need now is deficit spending to get people back to work.