A Russian woman faces 20 years in prison for telling the Ukrainian embassy that Russian troops from a nearby base were being sent to Ukraine.

The bizarre twist is that Russia continues to deny that its soldiers are in Ukraine, which means it has to claim that she gave Ukraine false information that she invented with no basis.

Naive governments, like naive individuals, are often led into debt by calculating and unscrupulous banks, and that was the case for Greece. It is the banks, not Greece, that deserved to be punished so that they won't do this again.

Demobilized in the USA: Why There Is No Massive Antiwar Movement. There was a massive antiwar movement in 2003 and for several years after that. However, by 2006 it was focused on the death of US soldiers, and not many of them are being killed now. Reportedly over 200,000 veterans have permanent brain injuries, but those are not visible so they don't inspire resistance.

Corruption in Ukraine reaches even into hospitals.

The Greek defiance illustrates that many countries need and deserve debt forgiveness.