The DA of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, is looking for old arrest warrants to discard because they are somehow obsolete or pointless.

I think he should go further. For crimes that are not violent or terribly serious, the warrants should be discarded after some years.

The Treating Workers With Dignity Act would guarantee employees a break to eat a meal, use the restroom, or tend to their medical needs while on the job.

The EU national governments rejected a proposed directive to make companies disclose how much sales they have in each country and how much tax they pay to each country.

This demonstrates the power that these companies have over the governments that have become their servants, and the importance of measures to cut off their poverty.

The plutocratic system is the root of most evils in the world today. There are a few exceptions — the system may have no particular interest in bigotry, except when that proves useful for right-wing politicians to distract public attention from plutocracy.

DiEM25, the campaign against plutocracy in Europe organized by Varoufakis and others, endorses Labour in the UK election.

It also endorses the Greens or the SNP or Plaid Cymru where those have a better chance of defeating Tories.

The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says that Bogus Johnson promised to win her freedom, then did not try.

In general, I condemn paying ransom for hostages. However, in this case it was wrong for Britain not to return Iran's money. It is wrong for Iran to take people hostage to get that money back, but Britain ought to pay it rather than steal it.