Humanitarian Palestinians protected an Israeli thug from being shot at by Israelis — because she is a person.

Kurds in Turkey believe Erdoğan is provoking a fight with the PKK so that he can reduce the vote for the Kurdish-associated human-rights-supporting HD Party in new elections.

India's War on Greenpeace.

In the UK: oppose the plan to harshly punish people that noncommercially share files through the internet.

I think that the suggested responses are too weak, because they accept as legitimate the overall framework of the war on sharing; they oppose only this proposed escalation. If I were a Briton, I would say that they should go in the opposite direction and legalize noncommercial sharing of all published works.

The proposed law comes from the UK's "intellectual property" office, and is typical of the twisted ideas that the term "intellectual property" tends to encourage. That's why I refuse to use that term.

You can reject it too.

Kansas is using suspect digital voting machines and fighting tooth-and-nail to block investigation of whether they cheat.