Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is giving us a reasonable facsimile of what Osama bin Laden would sound like if he were an actual elected leader.

From musing about wiping Israel off the map, Iran's president is now talking about the 'myth' of the Holocaust.

The CIA is much too modest about its role in the Sept. 11, 1973 coup in Chile when describing things in its World "Facts" Book.

This NYT article looks at how the Chinese government is working to keep the Chinese public from learning that as many as 20 protesters may have been killed by the police during a recent protest against a power plant in Guangdong province.

Chad is 10th up from the bottom of the UN human development index, or number 167. To compound its problems, it is one of the most corrupt places on earth.

And now the government wants to spend more of its relatively limited oil wealth on security and general government revenues instead of poverty reduction.