China's "re-education" forced labor camps have been changed into "drug rehabilitation" forced labor camps.

Most US prisoners had the option of a trial, though most get pressured into a plea bargain so they didn't have a trial. And the US puts a larger percentage of its population in prison than China does.

Current US robotics research turns out to be just what's needed for autonomous killer robots.

Everyone: call on the governor of Washington to block a proposed giant oil terminal.

Shipping the oil, by train and ship, would endanger the Columbia River and cities including Spokane and Vancouver. Burning the oil would endanger everyone in the world.

Everyone: call on Walmart to pay a decent wage.

Britons protested at a right-wing MP's office against the law criminalizing squatting, while the UK's empty buildings could house the country's homeless.

I'm delighted that this time the thugs did not intervene, as they so often do, on the side of the wealthy and against the downtrodden.

This cruelty contributes to the fast-rising housing prices.