One Palestinian in the Gaza protest says he tried to cut the border fence wire and throw a molotov cocktail. I couldn't criticize Israeli soldiers for shooting someone who was doing that.

However, it is a war crime to shoot unarmed people solely for "coming towards the fence", or even trying to cross it. And even more so in the incident, caught on video, in which Palestinians were shot while kneeling in a group and praying.

"How did we let modern slavery become part of our everyday lives?" The article contends it results from trying to make luxuries cheap.

The SEC intervened arbitrarily to protect an oil company from a proposed shareholder resolution to set a target to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Serving the ignoramus means feeding him limited information to confirm his prejudices.

Dubya had to work hard to get the CIA to produce the false information he could use as an excuse for his war of aggression in Iraq. How much easier this is for the ignoramus, whose officials have no integrity and are loyal to him as master, rather than to their country or justice or humanity.

Puerto Rico's imposed, nondemocratic government has decided to outsource statistics.

Outsourcing any government activity makes it unaccountable. In this case, it means the companies that report the statistics of activities in Puerto Rico could be induced to distort them in exchange for other lucrative contracts. These contracts would be offered by companies that want to buy public assets, and that desire their value to be underestimated.

If this happens, getting proof of it will be very difficult.