The head of Australia's human rights commission warns of government threats to freedoms of speech and advocacy.

The UK and US have supported jihadi groups in Syria and Libya, as well as states such as Salafi Arabia and Qatar that have supported jihadis elsewhere. The result is terrorism.

US citizens: phone your senators at 202-224-3121 to oppose the sneaky Republican attempt to destroy Medicaid and Obama's medical coverage plan (and give the rich a big tax cut).

An example of the total confusion and nonsense that results if you suppose that the term "intellectual property" has a concrete meaning.

Here's why it doesn't have one.

US thug departments photograph everyone they arrest, and often publish the photos directly to sites that use them for a sort of extortion.