The Israeli right wing government is planning to label foreign-supported human rights organizations such as Breaking the Silence as "foreign agents", following a trail blazed by Putin.

Palestinian human rights groups get hit even worse. Israel arrested Palestinian human rights defender Hasan Ghassan Ghaleb Safadi, tortured him, and is holding him in prison without charges.

He works in an organization that tries to represent Palestinian prisoners.

After several women in Sweden reported rape or groping at the midsummer festival, initial reports said that the attackers were foreigners. This was false, but the racist effect continues to spread.

Private prison company CCA took over two halfway houses in San Diego, claiming it would run them the same as before. Naturally, it didn't do that. Instead it began skimping on all expenses.

Local activists demand the county cancel the contract with CCA.

Naturally, CCA began skimping. Since it is a for-profit company, it "has to" make money, and the way to do that is by squeezing someone, or everyone.

It should be illegal for for-profit companies to run prisons, hospitals, schools, or any public services. Let those entrepreneurs accustom themselves to a salary instead of dreaming of riches at society's expense.

Some fishing boats in the US label each fish and put it in a data base, so the eventual purchaser can check what it was and where it was caught.

It seems like a good idea (since dead fish are not entitled to privacy rights), but I don't think it will entirely stop the fraud of mislabeling. It won't be impossible for fishermen to put lies into the system, or for supermarkets and restaurants to lie about what the system said about the fish they are selling.

A portable, quick DNA testing probe would make it easy to hold the whole system to account. They won't dare lie if they expect to be caught and fined.

The US has already issued enough fossil fuel leases to last until climate disaster, so issuing any more leases is simply nuts.

The UK claims it will phase out coal mining by 2025, but it is still licensing new mines.