Some "trade treaties" require certain minimum standard of rights for workers, but the US government hardly enforces them; it says that even repeated assassination of union leaders doesn't count as noncompliance .

Burundi's president declares that protest is rebellion so protesters will be punished as rebels .

The coup has nothing to do with the protests, except that both opposed the same president. To equate them is blatant contempt for logic, such as we frequently see from right-wing politicians in the US and the UK.

Iraq plans to send Shi'ite militias to reconquer the Sunni city of Ramadi.

"Trigger warnings" about sexual violence in fiction may rule out a lot of literature.

Obama has reduced the range of military equipment available to US thugs.

However, thugs have already learned to act like an occupying army, and this alone won't teach them different.