Inequality means two parallel human societies, increasingly with different rules for the poor and for the rich.

The New York Thug Department tried to whitewash the killing of Eric Garner in Wikipedia<,/A>.

The CIA director confirmed that the CIA still hands over prisoners to other governments and still interrogates prisoners in collaboration with them.

That would not be a bad thing if we could count on both countries to do this in an acceptable way. However, in the last decade the US has been known to turn prisoners over to governments that tortured them and even cooperated in the interrogation while letting the other country's thugs do the torture.

The former (and only elected) president of the Maldives was convicted of "terrorism", i.e., illegally arresting a judge.

I don't know whether he arrested a judge, and if so I don't know whether it was illegal, but it certainly wasn't terrorism. Therefore it is clear that this trial was bogus.

It appears Tony Robinson had taken psychedelic mushrooms and was acting strangely when he was shot dead by thugs. A friend had called them to get help for him. They could have dealt with him without shooting him.

We see a pattern of situations where a black or hispanic person is the object of suspicion — even for something not the slightest bit wrong, such as carrying an air rifle to the sales clerk in order to buy it — and thugs resort immediately to deadly force.