The US destabilized Syria and Iraq starting in the 1940s, which led to the dictatorships of Saddam Hussein and Hafez al-Assad.

The article links to a number of things (videos?) and encourages you to enable JavaScript and load Flash Player in order to view them. I hope you know better than to do either of those things!

Is there any way to see the videos without doing that?

This article talks about Syrian rebels that were attacked with poison gas.

Here's a suggestion: the US should give the Syrian rebels plenty of gas masks and systems to detect poison gas.

If Assad's men are using poison gas, this will thwart them somewhat. If they aren't using poison gas, this will do nothing.

A man in Kentucky is likely to be charged with murder, after he shot his wife at her request. She couldn't bear the pain of terminal cancer any longer.

I wish she could have asked for a gentler sort of death, but since the state forbade her that, I think he was right to grant her request.

An Egyptian labor lawyer was arrested and released.

Other liberals suspect this was a trial balloon to gauge public support for imprisoning activists.

Fruit juices and fruit drinks appear healthful but the fructose can be bad for your health.