US citizens: call your senators at 1-866-985-2543, and ask them to support a review of Trump's financial arrangements AND to support Sen. Warren's bill requiring the president to divest and disclose all business affairs in order to avoid serious and unconstitutional conflicts of interest.

The jihadi terrorism in Turkey is fueled partly by Erdoğan's support for Turkish Islamists, and partly by foolish purges of officials responsible for security.

When the PKK attacks the forces of the state, that's not terrorism; that's rebellion. There are some civilian casualties, but the PKK does not target them. They are what the US calls "collateral damage".

There is no way to fight and completely avoid civilian casualties. What the Geneva Conventions require, for the US or for the PKK or any other combatant, is to make sufficient efforts to avoid and minimize them.

I can't judge whether the PKK makes a sufficient effort, but it is pretty clear that the Turkish state isn't trying to.

It's a shame Erdoğan terminated the many years of cease fire with the PKK.

40% of the "suspicions" IP addresses that US agencies attribute to Russian crackers are simply Tor exit nodes.

Either US intelligence agencies are trying to snow us with meaningless factoids, or they don't have enough intelligence to recognize them as meaningless.

Record-breaking extreme weather in Australia caused fires in areas which don't normally have them.

One of the principle prosecutors of Leonard Peltier has called on Obama to give him clemency.