The poorest South Africans organize for housing rights, against the corruption of the state, and despite repression that goes as far as murder.

An Australian senator and a New Zealand MP went to Sri Lanka on a fact-finding mission to judge whether their countries should attend the Commonwealth Summit. Sri Lanka made the answer quite clear by arresting them.

This ham-fisted attempt at repression would be funny, if it were not for the seriousness of the repression when it is aimed at Sri Lankan dissidents and journalists.

The US will ceremonially destroy its stockpile of seized ivory, as part of a campaign to end legal sales of ivory.

President Maduro has sent state agents to enforce low prices in some stores in Venezuela.

In general, price controls cause shortages and are not a good idea. However, if applied only to certain stores which were given permission to buy dollaws at the low "official" exchange rate, they can be seen as a condition of getting that permission, and they should not cause shortages.

Venezuela has had shortages of certain products. No one I met there could tell me why, but it did not seem to be due to price controls.

US citizens: call on your senators to vote for independent courts for accusations of rape and sexual harassment in the US military.