Iraqi women organize secretly to protect women from oppression from religious bullies, including ISIS.

Israel's bombardment of Gaza has killed over 70 people. Targets included family homes (8 dead) and a cafe where people were watching soccer on TV (6 dead).

Israel has a recipe for killing Palestinian civilians with a built-in excuse: claiming it was aiming at military targets, and that it was "retaliating" for rockets.

The rockets, when aimed at civilian towns such as Sderot, are a war crime too, or more often an attempted war crime, since these rockets almost never hit anyone. But Israel intentionally started this battle, so it cannot plead "retaliation" now.

Hamas may have cynical motives for giving in to the provocation.

Natural gas under the sea is part of what the fight is about.

I don't think any amount of Israeli attack will make the people of Gaza reject Hamas. Its effect will be to make them cling to it more tightly.

China has given a big tax exemption to electric, hybrid and fuel cell cars.

Everyone: Call on Uganda not to punish Rev. Senyonjo for refusing to preach hatred of gays.

Citizens of Massachusetts: sign this petition to boost the Massachusetts minimum wage to $15.