The bank GE Capital has got out of tight financial regulation by selling off parts of its business and thus making itself small enough to be exempt.

I agree that this is a success, but a big bank is a danger and the tighter regulation is not enough to make them safe. We need to make sure all banks get smaller, one way or another.

Oakland's city council voted not to allow coal export. The developer of new port facilities says he will sue.

I don't know the legalities of the matter, but when you consider how many people are killed by emissions from burning coal, and that's not even counting the effects of coming climate mayhem, I think that blowing up a coal export terminal would be justified by "necessity" defense (preventing a bigger crime).

The UK now has a policy forbidding undercover thugs from having intimate sexual relationships with people in the groups they are infiltrating.

That's good, but what about the question of whether to send thugs to infiltrate dissidents?

The spread of "failed states" may be related to neoliberalism and its weakening of states in general.

7 years after the US-supported coup in Honduras, the harm continues to propagate.