The WHO commissioned a report about the health dangers of dirty depleted uranium in 2001, but has never published it. The report's main author alleged that the WHO suppressed the report due to political pressure.

Republicans threaten again to shut down the US government if they can't kill Obama's health care plan.

Islamists in Syria are now occasionally fighting and defeating the non-Islamist enemies of Assad.

Russian soldiers have boarded a Greenpeace ship protesting oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean.

This drilling risks an oil spill that would poison the coast and take decades or centuries to dissipate.

Naturally, the Russians said the Greenpeace protesters were terrorist suspects.

The US also treats protesters as terrorist suspects.

The ACLU has obtained files showing that US "fusion centers" keep records on people for the flimsiest of reasons, such as being middle-eastern, or taking photos on the street.