When attempts to increase social mobility fail, there's nothing left but redistribution from the rich to the poor.

That's what's right anyway. Painful poverty can't be excused by the fact that some poor become rich and some rich become poor.

The UK government snooped on 84 journalists and 242 of their sources during the past 3 years.

Armed forces of Chad and Cameroon separately won battles against Boko Haram fanatics.

It appears that competent armies have no trouble defeating Boko Haram, which suggests the Nigerian army is not competent.

PISSI is not alone in burning people to death; the missiles from US drones do the same thing. So do the phosphorus and napalm bombs that the US used in Iraq. But nobody publishes videos of that.

The reason PISSI was able to publish a video is that PISSI intentionally murdered a prisoner. That is a significant step up in barbarity compared with US missiles, which are at least intended to be fired at enemies on the loose, even though they often kill the innocent.

US citizens: demand release of the full draft text of the TPP.