The newly elected president of the Philippines promises to abolish human rights and assassinate those he considers criminals.

What this means is, if he puts you on his list, you will not get a trial.

If any democracy at all survives this, it will be by luck.

Egyptian Satirists Arrested for Mocking President.

Turkish Border Guards 'Continuing to Shoot and Beat Refugees at Border', according to Human Rights Watch.

Although the euro-boas have backed off demanding a new round of squeezing Greece, the current round is still being enacted, and it is likely to crush people to death.

Meanwhile, they are currently proposing only to tinker with secondary aspects of Greece's debt burden. I wonder whether the IMF will make them go further.

The article repeats a common falsehood by saying that there is a bailout "for Greece". The bailout is really for the boa-banksters.

They launder the money through Greece and pretend they are doing Greece a favor.

Less than 2% of US doctors are responsible for half the medical malpractice insurance payouts. If state medical boards stopped protecting doctors that repeatedly screw up, the US would not have a medical malpractice problem.