Many restaurant chains in the UK regularly steal from waiters' tips, or make them pay for the privilege of working.

I would make it a felony for any individual manager to participate in imposing such things.

A long interview with Varoufakis, who says that as Tsipras helps impose so many laws and decisions he considered wrong, he becomes twisted into believing in what he is doing.

It is a fundamental mistake to help a repressive government with the idea that you will mitigate the repression. What it tends to do is transplant the repression into your own heart, as you become a pillar to support it.

The negotiators of the TPP (Treacherous Plutocratic Poison) were ready to consider supporting fair use instead of damaging it — but then the big movie companies started pushing the other way in Congress.

The TPP is meant to attack democracy. These fights about details only reinforce the point that we need to kill it, whether before or after it is signed.

An article about the three recently deceased Islamist militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The author describes the Taliban as a "religious, anti drug, anti-Communist movement," meant I suppose as praise.

The Taliban may well be opposed to Communism in principle, though it never actually fought Communism since it was founded after the Soviet Union had disintegrated. However, there is worse repression than post-Stalin Soviet Communism — look at Egypt, Saudi Arabia and PISSI today.

It may have started out anti-drug, but it got involved with opium production once it took power. Not that the War on Drugs is a good thing.

But it certainly is religious. That is the worst thing about it. Islamism means contempt for human rights, those of women especially, but also those of men.

Migrants Overwhelm Security Forces at Macedonia Border.