When the UK's general in Iraq said he saw no particular Iranian threats in Iraq and Syria, the UK government hastened to contradict him, claiming it did see some.

I understand this as catering to the bully. For shame!

The scoundrel plans to pardon US soldiers convicted of war crimes, and others that could be tried for war crimes.

I think such pardons would violate of the Geneva conventions that define war crimes. Countries at war with the US could cite this as an excuse to commit war crimes against Americans.

With obedient and unprincipled Barr in charge of the Justice Department, the gangster can use it as his personal repression agency.

Creating an equivalence between investigating crime and committing crime is part of the standard Republican strategy. It enables Republicans to deny that there is any standard of right and wrong, other than obedience to them.

US citizens: call on Congress to stop local thugs from working for the deportation thugs.

If you sign, please spread the word!

A whistleblower has given The Intercept internal emails from Brazil's "operation car wash", whose official goal was to prosecute corruption, proving that its participants corruptly set out to attack the Workers Party.