Putin has never lost sight of his primary goals which are to prevent regime change, to maintain the sovereign integrity of the state, and to kill or capture all terrorists operating in Syria. If Erdogan agreed to these terms, Putin will have achieved all of his objectives; displaced Syrians will be able to return home, life will gradually return to normal, and Peshkov will have gotten the justice he deserves.

This article is based upon an interview with a mother of 4 children, whose partner as well as 2 children all had TB. New child-friendly drugs have been launched this week but lot more action needs to happen to ensure these medicines get rolled out and reach the child with TB everywhere!

While they may hotly debate such matters as gun control, or the death penalty, and while many politicians wax eloquent over the need to ensure world peace, and to improve the lot of working people, neither major party will do anything to antagonize the moneyed interests who control them.

The goal of terrorism is to terrorize us. What could possibly be a more effective means of that than getting us to live in fear not of some far-away foreign threat, but of our own neighbors? It's a numbers game, with hooks reaching down into one of the darkest and ugliest aspects of our history: Our racial and ethnic stereotypes and prejudices.

The new Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, summed up his House Republican agenda -- vowing to pursue legislation that would frame a stark choice for voters in 2016. "Our No. 1 goal for the next year is to put together a complete alternative to the left's agenda," he said. Despite the speech's sweeping oratory and careful stagecraft, Ryan clings to seven dumb ideas that will only help the rich.