The coup-running "president" of the Maldives seems to be trying to rig the coming election.

I suspect that "president" Yameen's coup was organized by fossil fuel interests.

In recent years he has put the country in China's pocket by accepting loans for unnecessary projects, such as a bridge that in a few decades will connect one patch of ocean to another patch of ocean.

We need an international system for countries that have emerged from dictatorship to repudiate the debts imposed by tyrants and corrupt rulers. That will teach plutocrats to stop trying to enslave countries through lending to those rulers.

When the islands are awash and no one lives there any more, China will foreclose on them and build a naval base there.

"Dr. Blasey Ford has zero to gain from lying and everything to lose. Brett Kavanaugh on the other hand has a repeated and well documented history of lying to and misleading the Senate Judiciary Committee."

How Congress Can End the War in Yemen. It looks like Congress's will is moving slowly in that direction.

There is no legitimate reason for the US to involve itself in Yemen's civil war. No reason for the US to maintain special hostility to Iran, either. That country is dominated by a repressive theocracy, but it is not as repressive, nor as harsh in its theocracy, as Salafi Arabia, which the US is supporting.

The US deportation thugs imprison children as bait to deport relatives that offer to receive them.

The weakness of truth in contending with lies is like a deficiency in society's immune system.

The report about how the bullshitter will not accept corrections even on insignificant details suggests that he considers himself infallible, and that he is out of touch with reality. Is that enough to judge him mentally incompetent and institutionalize him?