Congress plans to cut almost a million US veterans from food stamps, and other people too.

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.