Painting a pretty face on the harsh life of servants is a way of romanticizing inequality.

Italians have been charged with planning right-wing terrorist violence.

A Taliban-supporting cleric in Pakistan threatened violence against protesters, and is being investigated for these threats.

Pressure for prosecution of US torturers is growing.

The New York Times editorial uses the word torture which many other media have avoided. It omits the ringleaders, Bush and Cheney, from the list of suspects to be investigated, but they should be the prime targets.

The senate talks about setting up a "truth commission" to investigate, as a substitute for prosecution. That won't be enough to cleanse America's name, or repudiate tyranny. The Bush regime's secret memos trashed the whole Bill of Rights.

So much evidence has been published already, including Dubya's and Cheneys' public confessions, that there should be no need to offer any of the major organizers immunity.

Koalas are headed for extinction due to human destruction of their habitat.