Robert Reich: *How the oligarchy shrank America’s middle class (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 8).*

Israeli border patrol thugs repeatedly drove over the body of a wounded Palestinian who was lying helplessly in the street. Some of the border patrol had shot him just before, but he may still have been alive.

An Israeli peace supporter told me 20 years ago that the border patrol were especially cruel towards Palestinians.

A company makes a business of infiltrating and undermining protests that aim to prevent future local and global disasters.

*Revealed: Congress backers of Gaza war [had already] received most [money] from pro-Israel donors.*

Members of a drug gang seized a TV broadcaster in Ecuador, terrorist-style, but surrendered when the police came in such large numbers that the gangsters could not imagine defeating them.

Selling drugs is not the sort of cause that can inspire people to be willing to die for it.