American heroes who tried to stop the government's torture.

US employment has increased substantially in the past year, but wages have increased only where states or cities have raised the minimum wage.

This means that a little bit of recovery is trickling down from the plutocrats. But not much: the jobs that are being created are mostly lousy ones. And in the states controlled by Republicans, people have not got a raise.

Philadelphia thugs face multiple charges for doing the standard thug thing: beating a man bloody and making false accusations against him.

What is unusual is that they were prosecuted when the facts came out.

However, the thug that killed Seth Adams is protected tenaciously by the system that shuts its eyes to evidence exposing the thug's lies.

The FCC is trying to make the phone companies offer backup power for fiber lines that provide phone service, so that it won't be a step back from copper wires in an emergency.

Here's one situation where it would have been much much better not to allow all the "baby Bells" to merge into giant companies. The smaller companies would be less able to pressure the FCC to disregard the public interest.

Poor people in the UK pay triple the usual price.

In the US poor people often have to pay a lot more for food than everyone else does.