Israel regularly puts Palestinian children in solitary confinement.

It probably makes them confess — whether guilty or not.

The New York City thug union is blocking measures to reduce the thugs' random street harassment of pedestrians there.

While the tendency to harass predominantly members of minority groups demonstrates the nastiness of the practice, random harassment would not be any more legitimate if it were done equally to people of all races. And it would still fall disproportionately on the non-rich.

Glenn Greenwald: from Martin Luther King to Anonymous, the state targets dissenters not just "bad guys".

It's not just in digital surveillance that the state attacks dissidents. Look at how the US repressed unions.

In the US: call on Home Depot and Lowe's to stop selling neonicotinoid pesticides, since they endanger bees.

A worker in the Walmart that Obama visited reports what it's like to be unable to rent a place to live or pay for medical tests because Walmart is so bad to workers.