Jamaica Calls for Britain to Pay Billions of Pounds in Reparations for Slavery.

France should repay to Haiti the ransom it demanded to allow Haiti to escape from slavery.

Dropping a few bombs on PISSI is now de rigueur for some countries.

It is dishonest for these countries to claim that they are "defending themselves" with this. With the US already bombing PISSI, the extra bombs those countries can drop will not change anything; it is only symbolic. Defeating PISSI can't be done by dropping a few more bombs.

The massive democracy protests in Hong Kong a year ago did not achieve their goals; people disagree about whether they have achieved anything.

The proposed EU-US agreement on cooperation in regard to subpoena'd data lacks basic protections.

The pope spoke in a US prison and called on the US to care about what happens to prisoners.

I hope we can make US politicians start funding rehabilitation programs again. Putting an end to private prisons, as Sanders proposes, is a necessary step but would not, alone, offer prisoners help in rehabilitation.

However, we need to further than this. In order for ex-cons to go straight, we need to stop excluding them from nearly all opportunity other than crime.