The Love Commandos in India protect couples who run away from families that want to force them to marry others.

The survivors and relatives of the workers killed in the collapse of the Rana Plaza factories have only begun to get compensation.

What is really needed is an end to the business-controlled globalization that lets multinational companies make states such as Bangladesh compete to allow the worst exploitation of workers. Let's replace it with a new form of worker-focused globalization, in which countries legislate that "If you sell goods here, the factories that make them must pay and treat workers according to our standards, no matter where they are working."

The Burmese migrants that confessed to a murder in Thailand say that the thugs threatened to kill them and dump them if they didn't confess.

US corporations manipulate their stock prices by buying back shares. Some companies borrow money to do this, which over time puts the company in greater debt. Others are sitting on piles of uninvested cash and can do this without borrowing.

The US government has a PR campaign to cover up the atrocities in Viet Nam and make that unjust war appear glorious. It wants to bury the fact that atrocities by US forces were commonplace.

"You can't separate this effort to justify the terrible wars of 50 years ago from the terrible wars of today."