Phillip Morris, the tobacco company, continues trying to bully Uruguay (and by extension many other countries) into retreating from policies to discourage smoking.

This campaign is capable of killing millions of people.

The article alas spreads confusion when it uses the term "intellectual property". That term is pure confusion and should never be used. The tobacco companies use it as propaganda, and to repeat it is to support their propaganda.

Pakistan's biometric ID system oppresses most people but has not prevented false IDs.

Piketty's proposal for global tax on wealth is his idea for saving the world from growing concentration of wealth that will lead either to a bloody revolution or the world of the Hunger Games.

The Ukraine crises convinced the UK government to stop blocking the public inquiry into Russia's assassination of Alexander Litvinenko.

However, the UK still needs a government that won't pander to anyone with money.

The Israeli peace movement is a small remnant of what it used to be, as overt racism and right-wing hatred takes over the country.

Peace campaigners face not only physical violence but also legal repression.