US citizens: call for dropping the bizarre accusations against Chelsea Manning (and not putting her in solitary confinement).

Frack wells in New Mexico are spreading local air pollution that harms the health of the people who live there.

Former officers of Pinochet's dictatorship were convicted of murdering a dissident.

An Australian man, jailed for flying under a false name, has been put in inaccessible solitary confinement.

He should not be in jail at all. People should not have to give their names for domestic travel.

He seems to be an Islamist and has connections with groups accused of having connections with PISSI. Those views are despicable, but freedom of speech applies to them.

It is disappointing that the project cites the term "open source" which avoids issues of freedom. But the code they release is free software, so the project's work will be a good contribution to freedom.

Most of the time, a large software project should be copylefted. However, this is one of the exceptions. We want nonfree programs to support this format.

The article says they ask people to "contribute their own 'intellectual property rights'" — which is gobbledygook.

I suppose they are asking for programmers to work on the code, and (as a separate matter) asking companies to provide patent licenses for the algorithms and techniques. They could say so, it would be clear and logical. Alas, they are committed to the incoherent concept of "intellectual property", which leads them to generalize about unrelated things to create a false appearance of unification.

The hired private prison guard company that handles "security" for imprisoned refugees that Nauru holds on Australia's behalf followed a visiting Australian Green senator who was investigating prison conditions. Now the Greens demand that company's contract not be renewed.

This situation is one injustice piled on another.

Those guards seem to have been models of odious conduct.