Do-dirty's Drugs War: How One Family Was Destroyed.

In generally, when a ruler says he will send thugs to kill all the drug dealers, they kill a lot of other people. This happened in Thailand some years ago, and it is happening now in Bangladesh.

A trial can fail to do justice, but having no trial is much worse.

I have chosen to use my alteration of his name, rather than his. To use his would support him.

Getting rid of Do-dirty could end the murder of the poor, but there is only one way to end their hunger: to have a lot fewer babies.

Judge Temporarily Blocks Deportation of New York Pizza Shop Worker.

Women in Venezuela, in extreme poverty and unable to afford contraception, are turning to underground abortions, and to sterilization.

If fanatical US Christians get their way, they will ban both abortion and contraception. And they are not very far away from it. They might ban sterilization, too; it is against their religion.

The worst choice, in such a situation, is to have a baby which you can't afford to raise. Thus, the right thing to do is sterilization. If you are an adult today, there is no danger of an insufficiency of births before you are 55 years old.

Yet another reason why drug companies shouldn't fund (and thus control) clinical trials of drugs: they withhold important data.

Lush took down the "spycops" posters at its stores because former thugs threatened the staff.

Have they got recordings of these threats? It would be enlightening to publish the recordings so as to hold those former thugs accountable.