Bangladesh has shut down a messaging service that protesters found useful.

This sort of behavior has been seen in many countries.

The EU has made it difficult to ban GM crops, but not impossible.

US pressure is a considerable part of the blame. As usual, the US acts as a bully on behalf of big business; this happens regularly in copyright, pharmaceuticals and in agriculture as in this case.

Important businesses have come out against software patents.

A former TSA officer says they all hated their job because they knew it was causing absurd gratuitous misery.

The testimony of one of the few survivors of the Auschwitz death camp.