A Palestinian children's puppet festival in Jerusalem was shut down by Israel because it was funded by the PA.

Banksters in Ireland lied to sucker the state into giving them a bailout.

Genetically modified crops destroy African agriculture by trying to impose inappropriate US agriculture in its place.

Bob Brown faces 100 years in prison, either for exposing a conspiracy to falsely smear Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald, or for the rant he posted when he couldn't bear the government's threats about that.

There has been no investigation of the conspiracy he exposed.

This selective prosecution shows the government regards laws as means of imposing its power.

Senator Sanders has proposed a bill that would narrow some of the PAT RIOT act surveillance powers.

I can't tell without more information and advice whether this would be sufficient to make that law good, but it looks like a substantial change in the right direction.