Companies running salmon farms on the US west coast are trying to take water that needs to be released to rivers so that wild salmon can survive.

Uri Avnery: Israel deserves the Guinness record for chutzpah, for condemning Palestinian "provocations" that are dwarfed by Israel's own provocations.

Some Japanese schools won't let students read a famous manga book because it shows some of the atrocities that Japanese troops committed during the occupation of other countries.

One kind of atrocity they committed was waterboarding. The US executed some Japanese soldiers for this. However, the US has done nothing to punish the Americans responsible for committing the same brutal act.

It's clear that the Japanese officials who imposed this censorship care more about whether Japan looks good than whether Japan is good. You can see the same behavior pattern in officials in other countries.

The capacity to commit atrocities exists in every nation. Thus, all governments must do their best to prevent atrocities by holding perpetrators responsible.

A Time Magazine writer said he wants to see the US assassinate Julian Assange.

The NSA's 2776 "accidental" violations of its own rules in a 12-month period covered just the NSA headquarters. And the NSA concealed this report from the Senate Intelligence Committee until the committee saw the leak and asked for it.