The US says it has confirmed that Assad has used nerve gas.

This might be more of a reason to intervene against his rule, if there were a rational and constructive way to do so. But there isn't.

Erdogan threatens to attack the remaining protesters in Istanbul.

US citizens: co-sign this letter supporting public funding of election campaigns.

Snowden says that the NSA regularly cracks into Internet backbone computers around the world, in order to look at lots of people's and organizations' data.

I won't criticize the NSA for spying on other countries this way, but the US should not criticize China so much for doing the same thing.

More on non-domestic spying on the Internet.

Ralph Nader: Society's Decay Rewards Wrongdoers.