Mexico's Missing Students Draw Attention to 20,000 'Vanished' Others.

We Should Cash-Bomb the People — Not the Banks.

On the other hand, if officials' goal is to help billionaires, not the rest, handouts to banks make perfect sense.

A UN committee's resolution against massive surveillance left out the crucial issue of recording who talks with whom.

Records of who talks with whom are absolutely crucial. Whistleblower Donald Sachtleben is in prison because the US government exhaustively studied the phone records of dozens of journalists from the Associated Press.

The UK asked Vodaphone for the phone records of one journalist, so Vodaphone handed over the phone records of everyone at the same newspaper.

A Venezuelan opposition politician faces charges of organizing to kill President Maduro.

This is not an absurd accusation, given that the opposition launched a coup attempt against Chavez a decade ago, organized by the US.

However, it could also be stretching the facts.

Obama is planning to send some more US troops to Afghanistan.

The US can never actually lose the war in Afghanistan, but it can't win either, and continuing the fight means continuing the suffering of Afghans and the expense and militarization of the US.

The resumption of night raids will increase the suffering.

I don't think war is justified under these circumstances.