A leaked recording purports to be a conversation between ministers in Turkey planning a false-flag attack as an excuse to attack Syria.

I would not put this past the Turkish government, but at the same time I think that if it wanted to intervene in Syria it would just do so, with no need for the false-flag attack.

Officials begging for more ships to capture drug smugglers cite a list of reasons that demonstrate that legalization would do a better job.

1/5 of the farmland in China is polluted with toxic metals.

Botswana has banned Bushmen from living in the desert and hunting, supposedly for the sake of wildlife protection, but perhaps really to enhance the income of the president's family.

Recruiting them as a society to fight poaching seems likely to be more effective.

Iraq veterans in the US commit a substantial number of killings, most of the time not noticed by the press.

This is the most extreme aspect of broader psychological damage caused by sending people to fight a war that only lies can justify.