The UK is still stopping blacks on the street for no reason except to intimidate them.

It has reduced this mainly for white victims.

Parties in the European Parliament are pushing for a ban on arms exports to Salafi Arabia, which aid its intervention in Yemen.

Crowdfunding is becoming a veil to excuse oppressive cuts in public spending, and a way of letting donors decide what your city will have and not have.

I don't think crowdfunding as such is bad, but at the civic level it is no substitute for a fair system based on taxing business and the rich, and deciding democratically what to do with the money.

The troll's saboteurs have launched another dishonest attack against the CFPB's arbitration limits for banks.

They will say any sort of bullshit, because they have total contempt for truth.

Privatization of government activities results in steamrollers that use the power of the state while claiming the secrecy and lack of public accountability of private businesses.

To privatize a public service is an invitation for injustice and cheating the public.

To make any aspect of the contract secret is tyranny.

Labour plans to buy out some of these contracts, but that is a weak, half-hearted way to fight back. The state can do to these contracts the same thing that businesses often do to their workers's retirement funds: transfer them to another private entity which goes bankrupt later. If that's not legal now, change the law to make it legal.

Of course, this would be a hostile act. Doing this to workers who have done nothing wrong to deserve it is unjustified aggression.

However, doing it to companies that have cheated the public is a justified counterattack. Ideally we should aim to put all those companies out of business, so that the prospect of oppressing the public ceases to appeal to other companies in the future.