Libya air strike hits Tripoli's last functioning airport →

The head of the Libyan air force, Gen Saqr al-Jarrushi, told the AFP news agency and local media that his forces were behind the air strikes.

Gen al-Jarrushi is loyal to ex-general Khalifa Haftar, whose forces, supported by the Libyan army and air force, have been fighting Islamist militants in eastern Libya.

Meanwhile, the prime minister of Libya's self-declared national government in Tripoli, Omar al-Hassi, says that his government had been open to dialogue with their counterparts but would now be pursuing a policy of war.

"We are now facing an enemy that has a lot of weapons and has support from regional powers and unfortunately elsewhere in the world who are providing them with weapons and experts," Mr al-Hassi said in response to the strikes.

A commander of the Libya Dawn militia coalition, Salah al-Berki, called on "the revolutionaries in Tripoli to maintain all their positions in their bases".

After Ferguson →

How can we challenge and change the longstanding racial and economic inequalities that Ferguson has come to symbolize?

Any satisfactory answer will begin by acknowledging that racial injustice in and beyond Ferguson is not just about the actions of individuals like Darren Wilson and Michael Brown. It is also about the structures—the laws, the policies, the social and economic institutions—that inform and shape individuals’ actions. Structural racial injustice demands specificallystructural forms of political change.

What we know about what happened in Ferguson →

Some of the questions that Brown's death has raised simply don't have answers, but here are a few things you might be wondering if you're just getting caught up on what's happening in Ferguson...

It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did →

For anyone who missed the presser last night, Prosecutor Mcculloch showed how incompetently he tried to stage manage the grand jury. In fact, he gave a very convincing case of why it should have gone to trial (competing evidence; fabricated evidence on the part of the police; TWELVE SHOTS fired at Michael Brown who died over 150 feet from officer Darren Wilson's vehicle; etc.), yet tried to spin it as a job well done on the part of the grand jury and a case closed.

From every outward appearance, this person, who was *supposed* to be laying a case for why it should go to trial, deep-sixed it. End of story. And travesty of justice.

The Gospel of Rudy Giuliani →

Why are our politicians ignoring this plague of American-on-American crime? Why are American leaders not protesting the cult of death that fills the graveyards of America? Who will bravely challenge the culture of failure that says that Americans should only be outraged when Muslims kill Americans? Who will challenge the American pathology that says that a boy who walks unarmed is acting French?

I demand a TSA checkpoint at every shopping mall to shield Americans against Americans. I demand drones to kill Americans before they kill other Americans. I demand that American leaders stop pretending that American morgues and American cemeteries are full of young men because of jihadis. The evidence is clear—American-on-American violence is a silent killer that only Americans can stop. American criminality is now so rampant that it must always be the only topic of any conversation. Let us not speak of any act of international terrorism until American terrorism has been wholly vanquished.