Barcelona faces the problem of an excess of tourism, which threatens to force the residents out of the city, as a local consequence of broader problems: corruption and the debt-collecting government of occupation.

The UK has exposed collusion and lying among the thugs that accused an important Tory politician of calling them "fucking plebs".

Such collusion and lying is commonplace among thugs, to cover up other nasty things such as killing an innocent person. The system is set up to take it for truth — unless the victim is an important right-wing politician.

The Israeli army took a Palestinian civilian hostage, then used him as a human shield, forcing him to search buildings for tunnels.

Israel repeatedly accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields but there is no evidence this ever occurred.

An Israeli soldier shot a Palestinian teenager in the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet, fracturing his skull.

This does not happen by accident: the soldiers are good shots, and the teenager was not expecting violence, so he was probably walking in a steady, predictable way.

The winners and the losers of the latest battle in Gaza.