When Donald Trump announced he was running for president, he hired temporary actors to be the audience and applaud.

The thug that killed Nicholas Thomas said Thomas was threatening him. However, the autopsy shows he shot Thomas in the back.

That's typical of thugs: they kill you, they falsely accuse you, the other thugs support the lies, and they get away with it.

The officers that won't support the thugs' lies deserve the title of "police." But they face repression from the other thugs and from the state.

In Queensland, Australia, thugs who attacked a helpless handcuffed man face no charges, but the police officer who showed this to the public faces 7 years in prison.

The thuggery here is not limited to the thugs: it includes the prosecutors, too.

The International Whaling Commission is pressuring Japan to justify its claim that its whaling operations are for scientific research. Japan's response is to stall by giving inadequate answers.

In an act of racial hatred, a white supremacist shot 9 blacks in a church in South Carolina. He reportedly said he wanted to "start a race war."

It is certain that this was racist murder. Does that mean it is "terrorism"? Here is an argument that it is.

I am not sure. If terrorism means anything, it is violence against innocents meant to intimidate people so as to serve a political cause. We don't know whether these murders fit that.

We don't need to squeeze them into the word "terrorism" to say they were a heinous crime.

Another article argues that systematic repression of American blacks is "terrorism".

Systematic repression of blacks exists, and is very bad, and maybe in some cases it has been terrorism, but the two are not the same.

The word "terrorist" has ceased in practice to mean anything other than a smear.

Ukraine is at the edge of default, so it simply told its creditors, "Write down debt or don't get anything."

Contrast this with the situation of Greece.