An anti-Russian politician in Eastern Ukraine was shot by a sniper and may die of it.

Inequality Hurts Everyone Apart From the Super-Rich.

It has been clear since the 80s that trickle-down is a sucker's tale: letting the rich get a bigger share may enable them to increase total production, but they keep the increase for themselves; in fact, nothing trickles down. But now it appears that the growing inequality reduces growth too.

China Must Release Ilham Tohti Now.

The UK plans to punish the unemployed by making them visit a jobcenter each day, pretending that this is help for them.

The gag order on Barrett Brown's lawyer has been dropped, so he has explained the dishonesty of the charges against Brown.