An ex-minister in Australia has exposed how thoroughly the right-wing Israeli lobby dominates politicians there.

Thomas Piketty's economics explain ow unrestrained capitalism entrenches wealth and knocks down the poor.

De Toqueville, in Democracy in America, explained what the solution was 200 years ago: large fortunes were split up among several heirs at each generation. To avoid an oligarchic state, we must always have some solution.

The killing of environmentalists and land rights defenders has more than doubled in a decade.

Air pollution in China can make storms stronger in the western US.

Chinese human rights lawyers were kept in a secret prison and tortured. They have fractures to prove it.