US citizens: Rep. Ribble wants to convert retired Americans' lives to Rubble. Sign this petition calling on Congress to resist.

We could also send Ribble a Ribble'd suggestion for what he can go and do with himself.

John Greyson and Tarek Loubani have been released from the Egyptian prison where they were imprisoned for being in the wrong place at the wrong time and subject to beatings.

They were freed, eventually, because they are Canadians — thousands of Egyptians are suffering in similar conditions for similar non-reasons, and with little hope of escape.

Once freed from prison, they were blocked from returning to Canada by the Egyptian no-fly list. These lists represent punishment without trial; the US uses its no-fly list as an excuse to bully and intimidate. For justice's sake, the US must abolish the no-fly list.

Let's stop saying that Columbus "discovered" the Americas — they were inhabited, not "empty", and their inhabitants knew about them.

Much of the Americas was, in fact, nearly empty a short while after the Europeans came, but that was because smallpox killed 90% of the inhabitants.

In the US: tell major newspapers to follow the LA Times and stop publishing letters that deny known facts such as global heating.

The Committee for Public Safety (officially, Department of Homeland Security) is preparing for armed repression in the US — perhaps the next time there is a financial crisis. The US has not taken the necessary steps to prevent a repeat of what happened in 2008.