Thugs in Bangladesh attacked protesting workers from the factory that collapsed.

The IMF has privately recognized that imposing austerity in Greece did harm.

Estimating that austerity has led to 10,000 more suicides in Europe.

The Obama regime is secretly collecting records about all phone calls made on Verizon Business Services. I expect it's the same for other major phone companies.

This has been going on since 2006.

These records allow the government to find out who you know and who you talk with.

These records allow the regime to catch any whistleblowers who might talk with reporters about the regime's dirty work. That's the effect that really matters. If this makes it possible to catch some criminals as well, that's a minor side issue. Small benefits cannot justify great harm.

I am glad that the mainstream media are starting to recognize that limiting the use of information the state and corporations collect about you is not enough. We must limit the information that they can collect.

Malnutrition is the main killer of children under five.

Global heating is making food prices rise, and is expected to do so further in the coming decades.

The world economic system favors the rich; we need redistribution of wealth. But we also need to stabilize the population, which means, reduce the birth rate considerably. We should provide modern effective birth control gratis to women who can't afford to raise children properly.