The US has resegregated its public schools, and privatizing them makes segregation even worse.

Many "charter schools" are effectively prisons, preparing black youth for other prisons.

Congress is considering a bill to turn the Voice of America officially into a state-controlled propaganda outlet.

Australia is trying to pressure Syrian refugees to return to Syria, and has imprisoned them separately to weaken them.

One of them has gone mad from captivity.

Thomas Piketty has demonstrated that the world is moving beyond rule by an oligarchy of acquired fortunes, to rule by an entrenched oligarchy of inherited wealth.

Mathematicians, refuse to work for the NSA!