Non-star writers are paid very little by the existing copyright-based publishing system. In the UK, the median income for working authors is a pitiful 17,000 or 18,000 dollars a year.

The existing copyright-based system mainly supports the publishing companies as well as the stars that have clout with them.

Citigroup will have to pay 7 billion dollars for misleading investors, but it's not enough to discourage a repeat, and the executives responsible won't be punished.

The UK's NHS is grudgingly rationing out hip replacement operations. I suppose this is because of the shortage of funds, by which the right wing want to make it so bad people will accept privatization.

The Obama regime argues in court that US companies must hand over foreign data to US courts regardless of foreign laws.

Israel accepted a ceasefire proposed by Egypt, but Hamas rejected it.

Both Hamas and Israel had reasons to want some inconclusive fighting in Gaza Apparently Israel has had enough fighting to achieve its aims, while Hamas has not.