China is building cities on farmland, while it does not have enough farmland.

Rodney Reed is about to be executed in Texas, apparently framed by the thug who was the real murderer.

20,000 Nicaraguan sugar farmers have died in 10 years of chronic kidney disease, which is traced to working conditions. The Sandinista government has sold out to the plantation owners, which regularly cheat the workers out of medical benefits in order to avoid paying for their treatment.

The government has also betrayed the women of Nicaragua by banning abortion, which is part of the reason that men in Chichigalpa can't find any work except that which kills them.

If the company had to pay compensation for working people to death it might start treating workers decently. But that would cost a little more, and the company competes with companies elsewhere that probably work farmers to death too. Thus the globalization of business power kills people around the world. Nicaragua would be better off if it refused to compete this way.

What can we learn from the terrible consequences of western intervention in Libya?

The proposed Ukraine cease-fire never got started; war is heating up.