How Can We Take Power Away from Criminal Gangs? Legalize Drugs.

There are some problems of organized crime which we can't fix with that approach. For instance, sale of wild animals or their body parts. But we should use that approach where it is applicable.

Presenting the history of spaces designed for children, in homes, schools, and cities. The design of cities today impedes children from playing in autonomy.

A dying unauthorized immigrant in the UK has received a bill for around $40,000 dollars for medical care. If he does not pay this — and he has no money — he will be made to die without pain treatment.

The UK government has denied his family permission to visit him in the UK before he dies.

An anti-immigration Italian minister criticized France for colonialism in Africa.

It is true that France conquered a colonial empire in Africa. It ran its colonies for the profit of French business. Other European countries did likewise, including Belgium, Spain, Portugal, the UK, Germany, and Italy (in Libya, Eritrea and for a while Ethiopia).

However, this criticism of France is simplistic and exaggerated.

The situation in Africa today is, as a whole, the outgrowth of colonialism; it could not be otherwise. However, the causes of African poverty today also include religious wars, overpopulation, extraction of minerals, disease (including HIV and Malaria), tax evasion via tax havens, and making the people repay the loans received by past dictators.

I suppose France plays a role in that, but so do the US and China, which did not have colonies in Africa.

Ireland's Citizens' Assembly enabled Irish with different views to think together about contentious issues including whether to legalize abortion.