When daily life in a nation is best described as a constant series of predictable and preventable catastrophes that just keep on happening anyway, this nation is, by definition, a failed state.

One hundred years ago this week, the "Great War" ended.  Every corner of the world is still living with the fallout.  Happy Veterans Day, or Armistice Day, depending.

Among the latest marginalized groups to be targeted by the Trump administration is the trans community.

It's well-known among those who follow the international press that the far right is growing in Europe.  What's less well-known, for some reason, is that the left is growing, too.  And nowhere is that more evident than in England.

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.