The government of Australia has ordered MSF doctors to leave Nauru, so the refugees there who are committing suicide will commit suicide some more.

Near a fence that the western press refers to as a border, there has been a massacre of unarmed civilians carried out by heavily-armed soldiers most every Friday since last March.

Like many other people, I've been fairly transfixed by recent Senate hearings.  #IBelieveHer

Last night I was kicked out of a building for the first time in my 51 years.  It happened in Santa Cruz, California.

A 27-year-old journalist named Steffen Meyn fell to his death last Wednesday at Hambach Forest in Germany.  I have visited the forest, the forest protectors, the neighborhood, and the gigantic, open-pit coal mine that dominates the area on many occasions.

If most white supremacists in the US were aware of their own family histories, they probably wouldn't be white supremacists.

The Global Financial Crisis began in earnest 10 years ago this week, and the first of the series of global protests that began with a protest in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan on this date in 2011.  I was there.

The CIA-backed military coup in Chile on September 11th, 1973 resulted in thousands killed and tortured over the course of a brutal dictatorship that began that day.  It also gave rise to some impressive acts of solidarity.  In Scotland, workers at the factory that repaired all the engines for the entire Chilean Air Force refused to touch a fascist engine.  For a time, it was revealed recently, the entire Chilean Air Force was grounded as a result.

AP is reporting several of the children separated from their parents have been sexually abused in captiviity.  Unfortunately, sexually abusing children after separating them from their parents is as American as apple pie.

No, not Shakespeare -- Hamlet, North Carolina.  September 3rd, 1991.