As I suspected, the pension cuts proposed by Ortega in Nicaragua are partly demanded by the IMF and US-supported organizations.

The Onion: Netanyahu provides "stunning new evidence" that Iranians planned the 539 B.C. sacking of Babylon.

Israel's "rules of engagement" amount to illegal orders for a massacre of civilians. Israel must cancel them.

Israel arrested two Palestinian nonviolent protest organizers in the middle of the night.

China is reportedly deploying cruise missiles on its artificial islands in the South China Sea.

China's tactic to take control of that sea region has been quite clear: slowly, without hiding, build up facilities which eventually would become fortresses. The only sensible way to stop this would have been to do the same thing, but the other neighboring countries have not done so.

For the world, the most important thing about the South China Sea is to prevent its fossil fuel deposits from being extracted.