Stores such as Walmart use contracted companies to pursue alleged shoplifters. They don't bother to check the facts before they start harassing and threatening to sue.

Companies and governments use contractors to evade responsibility and accountability, as well as to underpay or cheat workers. We need to limit the practice in a broad way.

The pay of the CEOs of the biggest US companies was 312 times the pay of the companies' workers, last year.

Let's not say that the CEOs "earned" the amount they were paid. To judge whether they earned their pay is a different question and a complicated one.

The unlimited US support for Salafi Arabia and the UAE boosts al Qa'ida, involves the US in atrocities both localized and general, and advances the cause of tyranny world-wide. The US should stop this.

It pressures the US into war with Iran, a war for which there would be no moral justification or even national interest.

I suspect there is a monetary interest behind the US support for them. My main suspicion is that it involves oil and oil profits, although the US doesn't actually import much oil from the Middle East.

The Chinese state demands that Uighurs outside China submit to surveillance and compels them by threatening to punish their relatives at home.

China is exporting the technology of total control to other countries, but that's not the only place they could get such technology. The US is also developing it.

It doesn't matter whether the system that tracks you on the street comes from China, or the US, or your own country. For the sake of freedom and democracy in your country, you need to get rid of the system.

A Pakistani woman moved to the UK to marry a man whose family then enslaved her. (I suspect the family was of Pakistani origin.) Later her husband told UK authorities to kick her out — and they tried to do so without asking for her side of the story.

It's clear they have been told to grasp every possible excuse to deport anyone or keep anyone out. To listen to the deportee's testimony would risk spoiling the opportunity.