Hakan Yaman was tortured by Turkish thugs who mistook him for a protester. (Not that it would have been justified to torture a real protester.) They gouged out an eye and threw him in a fire: attempted premeditated murder.

The government is has been unable to find the thugs who were responsible. Perhaps it has not tried very hard.

This case is among the most extreme, among the general repression of the protesters.

Many computer manufacturers have adopted a new way of subjugating users: keeping the repair manuals secret.

Unfortunately, the iFixit manuals are not free. The article says they are, but it means they are gratis. I tried to convince Kyle Wiens to release them under a free license, but failed. I hope he will change his mind.

Snowden says that he did not set up an "insurance packet" for release if he is killed, since that might have tempted various entities to kill him so as to cause that data to be released.

Americans hit by cuts in food stamps tell their stories.

After pressure, Obama allowed congresscritters to look at the text — without staff to help them understand the implications — but they can't tell us what they saw.

The only plausible reason to negotiate a treaty like this is that Obama is planning to sell out his country, like Dubya before him.