War

The war in Syria has reached ludicrous proportions with the charging of former US soldier with aiding al Qaeda.

"A former U.S. soldier was charged Thursday with taking up arms with an al-Qaeda group in attacks against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old Phoenix Army veteran, was charged with conspiring to use a rocket-propelled grenade while fighting with the al-Nusrah Front, which has claimed responsibility for nearly 600 attacks in Syria since November 2011, according to federal court documents filed by the Justice Department."

The US government has been arming and funding this organization for over a year, but they're charging some poor guy with doing the same? You can't make this stuff up.

"In one of the videos, dated Jan. 26, the documents state that Harroun "speaks directly to the camera and states: 'Bashar al-Assad, your days are numbered. … Where you go we will find you and kill you.'''"

This man is carrying out US policy, and the US plans to lock him in prison for it. Here's another powerful reminder that the law applies to serfs, not rulers.

Eric Margolis believes we should take North Korean threats of war seriously. I'm skeptical. I find it hard to believe that any sane head of state would attack another state with 40 times its GDP and which is also protected by the incomparable power of the US military. Still, he's right about the most important factor:

"No sooner was the new young North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, in power than the US, South Korea and Japan began testing him."

Once again the US and its allies are proven the aggressors. Nothing good can come of this.