The Hong Kong government defeated democracy protesters by yielding nothing and waiting for the public to get tired of protests.

Lesson: people who get tired and stop protesting don't win.

Conservationists are pressuring Australia's big banks not to invest in coal companies.

If those banks are looking for long-term return, they should try to make sure that Australia isn't knocked to its knees by global heating.

Banksters are taking over state pension funds in order to drain them with high fees and risky investments.

Japan is entering a recession, and as usual financial powers are pushing for spending cuts to make it worse, but the government is determined to stimulate the economy instead.

Britain seems to be entering another recession (although working people have not started to recover from the last one), so the plutocratic government plans more budget cuts to make sure of this.

Puncturing the fiction of a "recovery" in the UK, the number of poor people going to food banks continues to increase.

This includes people who have work but their wages don't cover food.