Asylum seeker Hamid Kehazaei was apparently killed by Australia, which sent him to an offshore prison in which prisoners got bad and delayed medical treatment.

Naomi Klein: global heating and the plutocratic world order are hitting the world at the same time. This means either disaster or perhaps opportunity.

The plutocrats will seek to use the effects of global heating for shock capitalism, so as to drive most people in developed world into desperation such as we haven't seen since the 1930s. If ending plutocratic rule is necessary to avoid disaster, maybe that will spur people to do it

Naomi, please don't call the plutocrats and their supporters "Liberals". A Liberal is someone like me, or (to cite a leader of Liberals) someone like FDR.

Refuges for women experiencing domestic violence are necessary so they don't have to stay with their abusers.

Closing them down is part of the right-wing "family values" agenda, which values compelling people to be in families rather than the people as people.

Seattle activists blocked a train line to protest the transport of oil by train through their state.

The downtrodden parts of the US systematically direct youth into prison, but some forms of aid have shown they can break the cradle-to-prison pipeline.

We also have an obligation to end the systems that constitute the pipeline: running the economy to keep most Americans poor, racist thugs, the War on Drugs, and thugs in schools shoving students into the school-to-prison pipeline.