The US is working quietly to undermine an international agreement on internet freedom.

This article uses the weak word "open" to describe what this agreement is supposed to do. I think using that word is a mistake, since "open" leads one's thinking down paths that don't even try to defend freedom. Thus, especially when others use that word, we should not join them in that mistake.

A Chinese labor organizer appears to have been arrested and disappeared.

More than half the groundwater monitoring sites in China report polluted water.

Deer in the Czech Republic still avoid the places where the electrified border fences used to be, 25 years ago, almost twice the lifespan of a deer.

That means the cultural memory has been passed on for at least two generations.

Everyone: call on Walmart and the Children's Place to give compensation for the dead Rana Plaza workers, and join in preventing a repetition.