Interviews with the enslaved foreign workers building Abu Dhabi's branches of the Louvre, the Guggenheim Museum and New York University.

Comcast seems to have a systematic practice of telling customers that some repair will be gratis, then charging for it anyway — unless the customer has a recording to prove it.

"Social media" seem to make many people more narcissistic.

Why research ethics are necessary even in the midst of an epidemic.

Thugs, some armed with assault rifles, attacked protesters and journalists in Ferguson.

The thugs fired rubber-coated steel bullets at a protester with his arms in the air, and at journalists. They arrested journalists too.

Firing tear gas canisters at people's bodies is a tactic well known from Palestine, where soldiers sometimes succeed in killing people with these "nonlethal" weapons that way. That's not how tear gas canisters are supposed to be used, but try telling thugs that.

The repression in Ferguson highlights the effect of the general militarization of US thugs since 2001.

Thugs with military weapons now create a war-zone atmosphere at protests they wish to repress.

The thug in Ferguson who arrested a reporter, and bashed his head against a car window, was wearing armor that prevented identifying him. Handy, if you want to hurt and injure people and get away with it.

These thugs are the nascent occupying army of the plutocratic state. As the state imposes more "free trade" treaties to cement the power of big business and serve the interests of the 1%, it needs to repress the people somehow. Just stopping poor and minorities from voting may not be enough.