The countries that have criminalized paying for sex still repress sex workers, even if sex work is ostensibly legal. Helping sex workers be safe and free is not the goal.

"Talking about 'decriminalisation' lends the Nordic model campaign a veneer of progressiveness that a more honest 'stamp out prostitution' is lacking."

Plutocrats are offering public employees discounts from stores if only they quit their unions.

The US system of medical "insurance" could at any moment dump on you a bill for thousands of dollars, or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and make you wish you had been left untreated.

The Guardian has adopted the term "global heating".

Other major media are considering making the same change.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has independently investigated CIA torture. Its report details where prisoners were seized, where they were tortured, and what the CIA did with them afterward.