The UK's intelligence oversight panel accepts spying on human rights groups and on attorney-client conversations, with a few minor limits.

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State harassment has made Russia's "satirical Wikipedia" stop operating.

It is not clear from the article whether it will stop displaying the existing pages.

The plutocratic party in the Senate defeated a filibuster against "fast track" for corporate-supremacy treaties.

I fear the final elimination of even the formal possibility for democracy in the US is approaching. Here's an example of the harm that the older, weaker corporate-supremacy treaties already do.

Germany released Egyptian journalist Ahmed Mansour, who it had arrested at the request of Egypt's military government.

There's some chance the sun may be headed for a few decades of (slightly) weaker emissions.

Don't relax yet. It's only a 20% chance. And if it happens, it would only delay global heating effects by 2 years.