Protesters in Belarus are not giving up, and say that their next step is a national strike.

*Sanctions punished the Sudanese people, not their rulers. The US extracting compensation is one more hypocritical act.*

It reminds me of the indemnity that Haiti had to pay to France for its independence. Placing sanctions on a country is not the same thing as a claim to rule a country as a colony, but the resemblance is there nonetheless.

Nigerians are protesting to demand justice against a special thug squad that has "turned into banditry."

The conman's deal with Foxconn to "create jobs" in Wisconsin was a con from the beginning.

The laws that stop Americans from escaping unpayable student debts don't cover the 9% or so which are uninsured predatory high-interest private loans, and these are especially likely to wreck Americans' lives.