Much like the NATO summit, the system is set up not to spread wealth but to preserve and protect it, not to relieve chaos but to contain and punish it.
Lawyers for three protesters arrested on terrorist-related charges ahead of the Nato summit accused police of entrapping them and encouraging an alleged bomb-making effort.
Congress seems more interested in promoting drone proliferation than in oversight. A Washington, D.C., summit seeks to educate the public on the use and abuse of drones.
National Nurses United and other labor and community groups will continue with plans to protest economic injustice and call for a financial transaction tax.
Each time a new measure that the city of Chicago is preparing for the coming NATO and G8 summits is unveiled, the tension in the city ratchets up a notch.