Palestine has asked to join the International Criminal Court, after a Security Council motion calling for a reasonable peace deal was defeated.

Crime statistics do not support the claim that aggressive policing of minor vandalism reduces other kinds of crime.

France has backed down on its fair tax rate for the rich, under pressure from rich people who called it "anti-business".

Plutocrats will say the same thing about any attempt to throw off the dooH niboR policies they have imposed. Once we recognize that we have to defeat the plutocrats, we see the flaw in counterarguments that a country should bow down to business to help businesses compete against businesses in other countries.

In 1934, when the German concentration camps were political prisons (the mass killing of Jews came later), prisoners were frequently tortured. Compare this list with US torture practices.

Japan's population is declining slowly as the birth rate is substantially below the death rate.

However, Japan is only 2% of the human population, and the rest is still growing dangerously. While there are some inconveniences to a declining population, they are small compared with the catastrophic danger of an increasing population.