Anti-marijuana activists are suing the landlords, insurance companies, etc. of state-legal marijuana sellers in Colorado and Washington, to drive them out of business.

London thugs want teachers to label protesters as terrorists.

This persistent tendency indicates bad faith. Right-wing governments are exaggerating the danger of "terrorism" to use the fear against democracy.

RSF: Leaders who publicly threaten journalists.

I think they have been unfair to President Correa in including him in this list. If you look at what they say he did, it consists of (1) threatening to criticize one of his critic in the press, and (2) saying that some journalists repeat right-wing propaganda (which they do, in Ecuador, just as in the US).

A factory in the Philippines burned two months ago, and most of the workers were killed because the factory had no fire escapes. The government has taken no action against those responsible.

Local corruption was clearly involved, but business globalization took advantage of it.

California's groundwater, what remains of it, is increasingly contaminated by nitrates and uranium.