*How the Prosecution of Animal Rights Activists As Terrorists Foretold Today’s Criminalization of Dissent.*

The anti-Muslim discrimination of India's new immigration bill, plus the planned expulsion of those who can't prove citizenship back almost 50 years, add up to discriminatory expulsion of lots of Muslims.

New Zealand calls on farmers to reduce greenhouse emissions in 5 years or be included in a national emissions-trading system.

The argument that some farms would rather stop operating or that this would lead to more imports is specious, since that would happen only if the government allows unsustainable foreign farms to undercut sustainable local farms. To prevent that, New Zealand need only put a suitable import duty on food, and abrogate any business-supremacy treaties that get in the way.

An ex-minister of public security in Mexico, who retired to the US, has been charged with taking bribes to protect a powerful drug cartel.

With so much money, the cartel was sure to find someone to bribe.

A prominent Hong Kong protester was arrested incommunicado and subject to forms of torture, so he fled to Australia. Chinese people came to his home in Australia and attacked him.

I wonder how they knew where to find him. Perhaps Huawei had something to do with that.