US citizens: call on Attorney General Holder to fight hard against voter suppression laws.

Fazıl Say was retried and again sentenced to prison for "blasphemy".

Evil religious tyrants!

Obama asked Kerry to lead nuclear negotiations with Iran.

This opens the possibility of a negotiated end to Syria's civil war. I am glad Obama has recognized the US wrong in overthrowing Iran's democratic government in 1953. I hope this will lead to apologizing.

Victims of drone attacks in Pakistan are coming to testify in Congress, but their lawyer seems to have been intentionally blocked from accompanying them. The victims are reluctant to come without their lawyer.

Cruel right-wing Americans say people who get food stamps should get a job. Alas, many of them already have a job and they can't live on the low pay.

So how about raising the minimum wage?