The visible effects of plutocratic regime change in the US.

The Most Important Economic Number Isn't GDP or Unemployment. It's Wages.

Decreases in the full extent of unemployment do tend to translate eventually into higher wages.

In the past, stimulating economic growth was an effective way to decrease unemployment and increase wages. But this is not true any more, as the US in recent years has seen lots of growth in total economic figures with little benefit for workers. We need to stop measuring the economy with total wealth, total production, etc.

The leader of Boko Haram says he intends to sell the captured schoolgirls as slaves, and claims that Islam legitimizes slavery.

In the US, the Southern Baptist church was founded so as to endorse slavery.

The Four Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Inequality.

Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy has been on hunger strike for 100 days in an Egyptian prison. He has been held without charges for most of a year.