Manchester, England, is putting homeless people on trial, saying that their tents are an illegal protest. The homeless people say they are just trying to shelter from rain, after they were stopped from sleeping under a bridge. They face two years in jail.

If they were not protesting, they should have been, and it is wrong to punish homeless people for protesting a state that makes them homeless.

If you find the presence of homeless people on the street inconvenient or annoying, remember that being homeless is a lot worse.

The banking system almost crashed in 2007 because it had become corrupt in its structure: every bank trader has an incentive to cheat clients and take mad risks with its investors' money, and they are so powerful that they defy governments.

I am confident we can defeat the banksters, if we have sufficient political will to cancel any treaties that they try to hide behind.

The pope's meeting with Kim Davis has fired up the antiabortionist campaign to fight against LGBT rights through refusing to do their jobs. based on misguidedly applying the notion of "conscientious objection" to a situation it does not fit.

As we fight back against this, we may be able to target other forms of religious tyranny in the US, such as the Catholic hospitals that endanger patients' lives in the name of fetus adoration.

A campaign supported by whistleblower Thomas Drake offers to help surveillance agents quit the NSA and GCHQ.

The US wants to expand its search powers so that it can subpoena a part of the data on a hard drive, then fish through all the rest of the data for something to prosecute.