Don't believe Obama when he says that labor standards excuse "trade treaties". They are not really enforced.

Even if they were enforced, they would not excuse the TPP, because it's a corporate power treaty rather than a trade treaty.

Israel is about to demolish the Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya, again.

Facebook arbitrarily censors and closes the accounts of prisoners.

The Politwoop site, which showed politicians' deleted tweets, has been shut down by Twitter.

Journalists: when you cite tweets, do not display them by embedding from Twitter. Embedding tweets leads to two problems:

• If they are deleted, your article is mutilated.
• Twitter gets to find out who reads your article.

The wise method is to copy the quotations in your article, like any other quotation.

Don't expect killer robots to distinguish civilians perfectly, no matter how smart they are.