The latest version of the US "cybersecurity" bill still has the big flaw that companies could disregard users' privacy "voluntarily".

Australia's anti-protest repression was very effective: when 120,000 protesters were expected at the G20, only 1000 dared come.

A campaign against mass imprisonment in the US.

Israel's slow-motion ethnic cleansing of Palestinians proceeds through an intentionally kafkaesque application of laws.

Fossil fuel companies are trying to smash Germany's greenhouse gas emissions goals.

It is the usual short-term idiocy, arguing for global disaster later rather than some hardship sooner.

The UK Greens understand how serious the situation is. They propose to increase renewable energy as fast as possible, as if it were a war for survival. Which, in fact, it is.

We can't afford to slow down merely because that would be more efficient, as if we had all the time in the world.