Detroit's bankruptcy will be devastating to retired workers, since US bankruptcy law gives priority to the banks that inveigled Detroit into bad investments.

Texas Governor Perry signed the restrictive anti-abortion law, pretending to the last that it will protect women. In fact it is likely to kill women instead, by forcing them to choose between underground abortion and childbirth, each of which is dangerous compared with a proper abortion in a proper facility.

The law is likely to be overturned by courts, though.

The UK government actively and structurally helps corporations buy influence where it does the most harm.

A CIA agent has been arrested in Panama, and may be extradited to Italy where he has been convicted of kidnaping for the US.

US citizens: call your congresscritter to oppose the "Monsanto & Animal Torture Protection Amendment", the latest perversely cruel Republican measure. It would ban states from regulating farms, whether to avoid inhumane treatment of animals, or to require labeling of GMOs.