North Korea says it will investigate again what happened to the Japanese that its forces kidnaped secretly from Japan.

Thanks to the War on Drugs, people dying of cancer in Senegal can't get morphine.

Lots of other people who have surgery surely suffer unnecessarily from the lack of morphine.

A year later, the Gezi park protests have shown Turks the possibility and need for disputing with the state.

The people of Barcelona responded forcefully when the city tried to demolish an occupied social center (a squat that serves social purposes) that has functioned for 17 years.

Kerry called Snowden a coward for not returning to the US to be imprisoned and silenced.

Kerry's idea of loyalty is surrender to the US government, while Snowden defends America as a land of freedom where laws restrain government power.

There are many important jobs for which we need a state, but the state must respect human rights.

I suggest that Snowden offer to surrender for prosecution if Bush, his torturers and those who protect his torturers (such as Obama) do likewise.