The ISPs of Portugal have made a deal with the copyright industry to "voluntarily" rat on their customers.

Across Turkey, mobs have attacked offices of the HD Party, while the army attacks Kurdish towns.

The author fears that Erdoğan will sabotage the coming election, perhaps by preventing Kurdish regions from voting, or set the election aside entirely.

The US ought to disconnect itself from Erdoğan, so that it can support the Kurds in Syria and Iraq and thus destroy PISSI, and at the same time support democracy in Turkey. The success of the HD Party shows that Kurds and Turks could live together under democracy if only there were no rabid nationalist ruler to prevent it.

UK businesses want to replace taxes on businesses that emit lots of CO₂ with subsidies for businesses that emit less.

Supposedly this is for the sake of simplicity. We're not supposed to notice that it adds up to an increase in corporate welfare payments.

Anyone who gets fooled by this must really want to get fooled — like a plutocratist pollutician.

The UK's anxiety-provoking tests to see if someone is fit to work trigger relapses of multiple sclerosis.

The refugees Australia imprisons on Manus Island have to buy their own medicine after guards attack them, and they can't afford both that and food.

What's happening is that Australians don't want to admit most refugees, but since explicitly rejecting them would violate a treaty, Australia concocts underhanded, deniable, even secret pressures to push them away.

See this other article on refugees.