For-profit colleges in the US prey on people desperate for a way to escape poverty using exaggerated claims and high-pressure sales.

Federal student loans should not be available for these schools. However, the underlying problem is that of the plutocratic policies that favor the rich and have driven 1/3 of the middle class down and out.

Assad's army has demolished entire neighborhoods whose inhabitants were thought to favor the rebels.

Egypt plans to charge 20 al-Jazeera journalists with ludicrous charges ranging from belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood to "harming the national interest" and illicit possession of broadcast equipment.

This is Putinesque contempt for freedom of the press.

Some of these journalists are being kept in brainwashing conditions similar to those Bradley Manning suffered.

This also reminds me of the Yemeni journalist imprisoned at Obama's request for interviewing terrorists.

Persecution of gays in Nigeria ranges from betrayal to trial to lynching.

Public pressure made the UK government back down from prosecuting the men who tried to 'steal' food from a supermarket's garbage bin.