Global heating has encouraged an insect pest to wipe out the lavender crop in France.

Assad and his Syrian enemies will have negotiations.

It will not be easy to find anything they can agree on. Meanwhile, the goal of the original protesters, a secular democracy, has been completely ruined by Assad and Saudi proxies.

A French couple, age 86, committed suicide together, leaving behind a manifesto for legalization of the choice to die.

From Quebec to Spain, anti-protest laws are threatening true democracy.

The more government becomes a mechanism for control by the plutocrats, the less it can tolerate protest or democracy.

Proposed cuts to US food assistance will cancel out all voluntary food donations to the poor.