The International Criminal Court will examine war crimes in Afghanistan, including those carried out by the US.

I expect it will find that the Taliban carried out plenty of war crimes, but that conclusion will cause me no sense of guilt. It's different when my country is the culprit.

The Montreal thug department used Canada's new "anti-terrorism" powers to spy on the contacts of a reporter that writes about that department.

This is what "anti-terrorism" laws typically do. States really love having more power to crush criticism, which is why massive surveillance is more dangerous than terrorists.

US laws have been designed to produce "Socialism for the Rich, Free Enterprise for the Rest".

The $100bn Gold Mine And the West Papuans Who Say They Are Counting the Cost.

A car insurance company will offer discounts based on scanning all the text someone has posted on Facebook.

Participation in this is "voluntary", but if it typically offers significant discounts, non-rich people will say they "have no choice" about posting on Facebook. This sort of system trashes people's rights in practice even though in theory they still have the rights. We therefore should prohibit it.

"Wait until insurers can see the contents of your fridge."

Don't get a refrigerator which keeps track of its contents, dummy!