*Colombia to probe police who stood by as civilians shot at protesters.*

Lukashenko has charged the editor-in-chief of TUT.BY with tax evasion "on an especially large scale," which could only be a fabricated excuse.

Daniel Ellsberg published a secret US report that proposed using nuclear weapons against China in 1958, supposing China were to attack Taiwan.

Now he dares the US government to charge him under the Espionage Act, as it has charged other leakers including Edward Snowden, as well as journalist Julian Assange.

Trickle-up economics: economic modeling including the "velocity of wealth" predicts that giving a larger share of economic growth to the non-wealthy increases economic growth, and this benefits everyone including the wealthy — while decreasing the gap between them.

The result is to increase the total level of consumption. That would be good if it benefited mainly the non-wealthy, except for one problem: nowadays it is not clear that we can sustain more consumption in the US.

Juan Cole: Naftali Bennett, who personally advocates annexing the Palestinians' land and treating them as unwanted residents, may become prime minister of Israel with the support of a coalition of parties with a spectrum of different views.

Ironically, he may need one Arab party's votes. I can't begin to guess how much of Bennett's personal views would get implemented by that coalition.

But it could stay in power long enough for Netanyahu to be formally prosecuted for corruption. Maybe then he could not become prime minister again, and the political situation would change permanently.