The UK police force behave as thugs because they have come to regard the public as an enemy.

In effect, the thugs are the army of occupation for the rich that the state serves.

The effects of global heating are being felt around the world, and further heating will be caused inevitably by the greenhouse gases already emitted.

The forecast damage to coffee production won't bother me, and might do no more than frustrate you, but millions of people who make a living from producing coffee may become destitute.

The NSA and its partners infiltrated several German companies' computers just to increase its capabilities to spy on a hypothetical future target.

A homeless unemployed mother in Arizona was arrested for leaving her kids in the car to go to a job interview — but what else should she have done?

Would the state rather she stay unemployed? Bring them to the job interview? Magically put them in another dimension while going to it? The charges are ridiculous anyway; there's nothing dangerous about being in a car for 45 minutes with a window open.

People in this situation should throw it back in the state's teeth by telling the judge, "I am being prosecuted for doing the best thing I could have done at the time. That I am prosecuted for this demonstrates the cruelty and viciousness of the state. I will not cooperate with these unjust proceedings. Put me in prison and you will be shamed by your actions for as long as I live. I will never apologize or ask forgiveness for what was not wrong, and I will never pay a cent of ransom to get out."

She should not allow anyone to pay bail for her, but rather say, "I refuse bail — drop the charges!"

BP has spilled tar sands oil into Chicago's water supply, and nobody knows how much.