Poverty today is not a natural problem — it results from plutocratic policies that concentrate wealth.

Israel arrests Palestinian activists to prevent protests.

Netanyahu is trying to push Palestinians to use violence because that makes it easy to put them in the wrong. Israelis can get away with violence against Palestinians, by the state and by groups of fanatics, but the world condemns all Palestinians when some of them are violent.

The US government hinted that Israel was using excessive force against Palestinian protesters, but timidly pulled back after a reprimand from Netanyahu.

Alarm Grows over Summary Executions of Palestinians.

Sometimes it is necessary to shoot a person who is trying to kill others. The problem is that Israeli troops do this whether or not it is necessary, even to innocent victims.

In Wisconsin, many government searches were carried out ordering the targets not to tell anyone, not even their lawyers.

Some of these searches appear to have been part of the investigation of Governor Walker for campaign finance violation. It was correct to investigate them, but people should not have been told not to tell their lawyers about it.

The US government argues, in court, that Apple is obliged to make iThings decrypt users' data because Apple claims it owns the software running in them.