The Chicago thug department made it almost impossible for lawyers to tell that their clients were being held in Homan Square for interrogation (perhaps torture).

Thugs will break any rule, if they get away with it. If all that we do when we discover such a practice is to make them stop that one, they will find another. We need to jail thugs for participation in such oppressive practices, and there needs to be a separate prosecutor for this.

The UK government proposes a definition of fracking which excludes lots of ordinary fracking.

More Than 400 Arrested at the Capitol During Protest Against "Big Money".

I wonder why the newspaper put quotations around "big money" in the title.

Refugees living in Australia on "bridging visas" have no health care, and sometimes no heat or food. They are not allowed to do work to get them.

US citizens: call on Congress not to privatize the Vieques National Wildlife Refuge.