The organization of big US businesses operating in Europe presented bogus arguments for not taxing some of them more.

This shows that the EU is on the right track.

Economic growth is not desirable unless the non-rich get a bigger share than they have got in the last 3 decades, and increasing taxes on companies is vital for that.

As for cooperation with the US on "global tax reform", the global tax reform that the world needs is to tax businesses more, and the EU can build momentum for it by doing it.

Puerto Rico's hospitals (most of them) are without electricity.

Patients can die from this, and surely some already have.

Almost half the population lack safe drinking water. In a week or two, people will begin dying from that.

A Christian preacher in Sierra Leone was arrested for calling Islam a "violent religion of lies and deceit".

Every major religion engages in violence, lies and deceit -- sometimes. Even (and how ironic this is) Buddhism. But none of them always does so.

Corbyn has taken a strong position for affordable housing, which includes opposing the privatization-gentrification schemes that replace public housing with expensive housing.

Women in Salafi Arabia are treated as slaves. And just as with slaves, those who escape are tracked down and dragged back with the help of governments that support slavery.