US citizens: phone senators to oppose the nomination of a coal lobbyist as the second in command of the EPA.

US immigration prison thugs, working for a private company, put an asylum seeker in solitary to punish her for reporting other acts of harassment. They said they would not release her unless she retracted her complaints.

South Africa's super-corrupt president Zuma has resigned.

With a scandal in the news about some humanitarian aid groups, right-wingers are inventing lots more fake scandals.

Why? I think they hate the idea that suffering people deserve some help and that governments can fund it.

Iran's equivalent of Pizzagate: environmentalists studying rare cheetahs have been accused of spying. One of them recently was killed in prison.