The US Senate passed a bill to name a square in Washington after imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

China deserves this rebuke, and I hope it is adopted. Meanwhile, I wish the US would cease its practices of imprisonment without trial, extracting false confessions through torture, and imprisoning whistleblowers, so that it could be in a good moral position to rebuke other countries.

An autopsy shows how Giulio Regeni was tortured in Egypt.

Yazidi women, former sex slaves, have formed a brigade to fight PISSI.

Right on!

Beyond contributing to the possible defeat of PISSI, they will also help the struggle against the general patriarchal cruelty of Arab society.

US citizens: call on Obama to cancel nuclear weapons upgrades.

Now that Justice Scalia can no longer spread injustice in the US, SCROTUS have declared the intention to reject whatever replacement Obama proposes.

I fear Obama will propose someone "moderately" right wing in the hope of gaining SCROTUS's approval. Obama has not much record of standing firm, but this would be an outrageous surrender.