The Venetian region has its own separatist movement.

It is the usual sad story: when a country hits an economic crisis, people in wealthier regions of the country start demanding independence so that they won't have to help the poorer regions. What foolish selfishness, for the not-quite-so-poor to fight against the poor, rather than joining forces against the rich.

High pay for company executives has become a status symbol.

I don't want to abolish business as such, but I believe we must put an end to business as we know it (the plutocratic system). We must not be scared to say this.

Assad's forces have besieged 18,000 in a part of Damascus, and they are running out of food.

If the US wants to do something in Syria, how about air-dropping food to them?

Meanwhile, Assad's planes are bombing Aleppo into rubble.

Armed right-wing tax rebels in Nevada stood off US forces to preserve the right to graze cattle in a wildlife preserve and not pay fees.

Their readiness to resist the state power would be admirable if they were doing it in a good cause, but they are doing it for the sake of their own exploitation.

A British MP who was tried and acquitted now believes he was wrong to vote to cut the reimbursement of the legal fees of those who are tried and acquitted.