Millions of people in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have been driven from their homes by the massive violence of organized crime.

It appears that Obama helped trigger this by deporting 300,000 people with criminal records back to those countries. I don't think it was wrong on principle to deport them, but those countries' governments needed help to handle them.

Speaking of those governments, those countries suffered from US-supported right wing repression some decades ago.

A leaked conversation between two people in the US security apparatus flat-out asserts, as a certainty beyond question, that Assad didn't launch a sarin attack this year, and that the US security apparatus knows that for certain.

I am not sure what to make of this dialogue.

On the one hand, I have some respect for Seymour Hersh, who published this. The idea that the troll lied about the sarin attack, having lied about so many other things, is not a priori implausible.

On the other hand, this is supposedly a leaked conversation between two people, but it doesn't read like a conversation. It reads like a two-speaker joint presentation to an audience.

As a result, I feel unable to judge what part of this is true.

The OPCW announced some more evidence that the poison was Sarin and that it spread from a Syrian munition.

US citizens: call on Democrats in Congress to support single-payer medical care, also known as "Medicare for all".

US citizens: call on Congress to end the NSA's Section 702 power to spy on Americans.

US citizens: oppose the Republicans' dirty energy bill.

It would

• speed up approval of exports of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) abroad, increasing fracking here at home;
• give FERC (an agency with absolutely no accountability to the people) even more authority over decisions about pipelines for natural gas;
• authorize hundreds of millions of dollars for research into recovering methane hydrates, a dangerous new source of methane trapped under the ocean floor;
• have no mention of solar or wind in the "renewables" section!