Everyone: call on Dole to intervene to protect Andy Hall, who reported on slavery in pineapple production in Thailand.

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Don't blame low-paid working mothers for bringing along children to help.

Instead, blame the cruel right-wing politicians that make laws that make this the best option those mothers have available.

Thousands of Russian soldiers were sent to places near Ukraine, then stopped communicating with their families.

Hundreds have turned up killed in combat, and the government refuses to say where they died.

The only plausible explanation is that they have been sent into Ukraine to fight.

I find it amusing that people who (rightly) distrust what the US government says about its own military operations are willing to believe what Putin says about his.

Modi's government wants to preserve some of the coal mining licenses that were issued corruptly.

Even if a mine is ready to produce, that is no obstacle to requiring the mine license to be auctioned properly to buyers.

There is also the separate and vital environmental issue of whether India ought to burn so much coal.

Madly overzealous UK thugs had the King family arrested in Spain for taking their sick child out of a hospital, hoping to give him a different treatment elsewhere.

It appears doctors disagree about whether the proton beam treatment they hope to give Ashya King might help him. (See the end of the article.) In any case, the hospital he was in had given up hope for saving him, so there was nothing to lose by trying another treatment except what it would cost.

The hospitals that say the proton beam treatment is better might have been exaggerating to get business. Or it might be true.

Whether it is true or not, whether it saves Ashya King or not, it is clear that his parents were acting responsibly to try to care for him. The accusations of neglect, used to get them arrested in Spain, are impossible to justify.

It appears that the European arrest warrant was issued without a valid legal basis.