Salafi Arabia is putting women's driving rights activists on trial, with reporters and diplomats excluded from the courtroom. This may be a way to prevent verification of their charges of torture. If they have cracked and confess, no one will be able to say that they seem to have been brainwashed.

US citizens: call on Biden to sign the no-fossil-fuel-money pledge.

If you sign, please spread the word!

The US deportation thugs put their immigration prisoners into solitary confinement (which drives people mad) as the default method for dealing with anyone who is inconvenient. Including those who are mad. Including those who are mad as a result of solitary confinement. Including those who tried to kill themselves to get out of solitary confinement

I suspect the staff do this because they hate immigrants and are eager to hurt them. Here's a report about a thug that vented such hatred many times, and came close to murdering one border-crosser.

It does not follow that all the border thugs are as bad as he is. But they didn't treat his salivating, murderous hatred as a problem, which implies that this hatred is more or less accepted among them.

China and the US are starting a world-wide competition for which will control digital technology and networks.

What is the role of human beings in this competition? We are supposed to be prey — the little bits of "land" that they will compete to dominate, monitor, and control.

Therefore, the battle that matters for us is between the tech companies of the two superpowers, and people.

We, the people, need to defeat both of those competing "sides" that aim to control us.

UN Rapporteurs Urge India Again to Release Ailing Activist-Academic G.N. Saibaba.