Bank holding companies such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs are not allowed to own ordinary businesses, so why doesn't the US make them sell those?

Pre-teen Indian girls are sold, tricked or kidnaped into prostitution, then kept in small cages until they are broken.

I post this link because the issue is important — but don't get the "interactive e-book" that it advertises! That is nonfree software combined with DRM. It requires using an iThing! This attacks the freedom of whoever reads it.

Using an iThing is not as bad as being kidnaped and raped, but since it's easy to avoid, you'd be a fool not to avoid it.

Tunisia's Islamist government will resign so new elections can be held.

The US should stop leaving it up to people to volunteer for organ donation in the event of their death. Over 6000 Americans die every year for lack of an organ to transplant.

I criticize Rall's decision to protest the inequities of the US organ transplant system by refusing to donate. Such refusal exacerbates the lack of organs which causes those inequities. I signed up as an organ donor when I first got a driver's license.

I disagree with one of his statements. That someone believes in a religion does not imply the person is an idiot. What these people lack is not intelligence, but rather the moral courage to face the painful likely truths. Some of them go to extreme lengths of cleverness to construct arguments that bury the fallacy where it is hard to see.

However, I agree with his conclusion, and with the point that we should stop being superstitious about corpses. This means, in particular, that we should stop making a fuss over the corpses of the deceased. This fuss is strongly encouraged by the mainstream media, and that could lap over into the issue of organ donation.

Two Saudi Arabian women will be imprisoned for trying to bring food to a woman who (they had been told) was locked up with her children and had run out of food.

Giving food to the needy is banned in some parts of the US, too. https://www.commondreams.org/further/2013/08/26-1 gives a recent example from South Carolina. Members of Food Not Bombs faced felony charges in San Francisco in the 90s for distributing food, and one was in danger of imprisonment under the "three strikes" law.

These US laws are not meant to protect patriarchal power, but rather business profits. Homeless people are unsightly, but feeding them would cost something, so businesses try to sweep them away, so they will starve where people can't see them or boost the profits of privatized prisons.