The last independent TV station in Russia is being shut down.

The Prison State of America: prisons are a scheme for forced labor, charging prisoners fees and fines to make them work for companies for a pittance.

The private prison companies lobby for many measures, some explicit and some subtle and indirect, to put more people in prison.

Senator Bernie Sanders: The Trans-Pacific Trade (TPP) Agreement Must Be Defeated.

Many working people in the UK are effectively working for nothing because their wages pay for less than the costs of working.

I suspect the right-wing government would punish them if they quit.

China is imposing strict conformity on views expressed in universities.

Western countries such as France which prohibit disagreement with the official view of certain issues, such as the genocide of the Armenians, provide China with an excuse for its own restrictions on permitted opinions.