The Australian minister in charge of abusing refugees claimed that the leaked Nauru reports were phony — but Save the Children had twice informed him and other ministers of the same spectrum of abuses.

The number of women in prison in the US is rising fast.

It could be a consequence of the spreading practice of jailing people for habits typical of poor people, for having fines, or for symptoms of mental illness.

In the 1980s, the MIT folk dance club performing group performed in a women's prison. It appeared that a sizeable fraction of the prisoners were taking medication.

Bolivia Opens 'Anti-Imperialist' Military School to Counter US Foreign Policies.

An Argentine judge is trying to investigate the killing of Federico García Lorca by dictator Franco's forces in Spain.

Spanish courts shy away from this. A few years ago, Spanish friends told me that Franco's supporters still had too much political power in the right-wing party, which is currently in power again.

Israel is planning another colony in the Palestinian West Bank, which would split the West Bank into two disconnected parts.

This follows Netanyahu's strategy of making sure no Palestinian state can actually function.