Morsi will face charges on the crime of "insulting the judiciary".

To make it a crime to insult someone — no matter who! — is in itself injustice.

However, jailing journalists is even worse.

A prize-winning Egyptian journalist has been arrested for "publishing false information".

The jailing of Abu-Deraa shows there is every reason to distrust what the Egyptian government says about its attacks in the Sinai, just as we distrust what the US says about drone attacks in Pakistan. There may be some real Islamist terrorists there, but that doesn't mean the government's story is true. We can't be sure that the shells allegedly found on railroad tracks really existed. If they did, they might have been planted by the army to be "found".

Meanwhile, this article also shows that Egypt is now joining Israel to besiege Gaza.

Phillip Morris has hired 160 people to lobby to delay and thus kill regulation of tobacco marketing.

Phone your elected representatives via 1-STOP-323-NSA and say you want them to stop the government from snooping on us.

Tokyo was elected to bear the burden and harm of the 2020 Olympics. Madrid and Istanbul have escaped, for now.

The Olympic games leave behind nasty surveillance, unjust laws, and huge debts. Large companies get the profits while keeping local small businesses and street vendors out.

Tens of thousands protested in Tunisia, demanding that the Ennahda (Islamist) party step down.