Stop Investing in Colombian Blood: Land Activists Appeal to the UK.

Israel is planning to change election rules to keep the Arab political parties from being represented in Parliament. As in the case of US Republicans, the aim is to be able to claim to have a democracy while not really having one.

I disagree with Ms Zoabi on one point: kidnaping (or killing) civilians for a political purposes is indeed terrorism. The forces of repression continually try to stretch that word to apply it to whatever displeases them, but it does have a valid meaning and that act fits it.

Which is not to say that that act justified Israel's repressive response which was apparently designed to provoke Hamas into giving an excuse to attack Gaza.

Anyway, Ms Zoabi's opinions are no excuse for legal discrimination. And prosecuting anyone for insulting thugs (or anyone else) is obvious injustice.

Since the US does not fund good solutions to social problems, it dumps those affected into prisons to make them disappear for a while.

Afterwards they typically return worse than before.

In Vienna, a model shows what could have been built for the money spent to bail out a big bank.

I think bank bailouts should be done in return for equity in the bank. For big bailouts, the previous owners should surrender all their equity.

G20 countries are spending 88 billion dollars a year to find more fossil fuel reserves.

This is a total waste, since we already know of 5 times as much reserves as we can burn without causing global disaster.