Egyptian thugs killed over 270 pro-Morsi protesters, and eventually drove the doctors out of the protest camp field hospital by shooting tear gas at it. I wonder if the wounded protesters will turn up dead.

This means Egypt has turned to naked military rule. Will it be as repressive and persistent as it was under Mubarak? One can hope not, but the return of Mubarak's "emergency" law suggests the worst.

Mild criticism with zero firmness is how the US typically treats a repressive regime that it supports. I think it means that the US really supports the Egyptian military's repression and only pretends to disapprove.

Egyptian suppression forces killed over 500 protesters.

Secular Egyptians mostly seem to support the military; I received mail from one that accused the Muslim Brotherhood of "terrorism". There has been some minor terrorism, specifically attacks against Christian churches (but not people, from what I've read), but as far as I know the Muslim Brotherhood does not advocate this. It might well have violated the human rights of women and non-Muslims, and maybe Muslims too (by forbidding them to stop being Muslims), but that is not the same thing as terrorism.

China will stop the official practice of transplanting organs from victims of execution.

Finally, the US government opposes a merger between giant companies.

All such mergers should be blocked as standard practice.

A former aide to Senator Wyden rebukes Obama for thwarting an open debate about massive surveillance in Congress for so long.