We should reject the proposal to reinstate the House Un-american Activities Committee, as well as other injustices such as imprisonment without trial, torture, the no-fly list, and massive surveillance.

Ignoring People for Phones Is the New Normal.

I sometimes ignore people for my laptop, but never for a phone (since, to resist surveillance and nonfree software, I refuse to carry one).

Why being on a "watch list" should not disqualify a person from buying guns (or anything else).

However, there would be no such problem with barring those convicted for domestic abuse from buying guns, or continuing to own guns. That would have disqualified the Orlando murderer. It would also save lots of women from being shot by their spouses or lovers.

Tens of thousands protested the new "labor flexibility" law in Paris.

Once a state begins trying to compete with other countries to woo companies by allowing them "flexibility" to treat workers worse, it joins those countries in a race to the bottom -- exactly what plutocrats want.

The British elite call on Britons to reject the "European elite" so that the British elite can have full power over them.

A threat to leave the EU might be useful for Britain if done by a government led by Corbyn.

George Monbiot: the UK's plutocratic system is even worse than the EU's plutocratic system.