The UK will reexamine each planned weapons sale to Israel to ensure they don't support attacking Gaza.

Whether this is serious, we will see by the results.

Australia's proposed austerity budget would hurt the poor most.

That's what it was intended to do. Tony Grabbit is evil, but not incompetent.

New York's jail for minors is a hell of violence.

The intelligence services, effectively a fourth branch of government, continue to enjoy effective impunity while spying on all of us.

Australia's chief immigration psychiatrist says the treatment of asylum seekers is designed to make them suffer, as a form of mental torture.

And not only mental, when you consider the confiscation of medicines, the violence, and so on.