The American Pharmacists Association has adopted the position that its members should not provide drugs for execution.

This is non-binding but may have an effect nonetheless.

The Tory logic of austerity is to stigmatize a part of the poor and desperate as "undeserving" to win support for kicking them while they're down.

If you have been driven to the point of suicide, that means you have nothing to lose. Rather than handing your killers an easy victory by dying quietly, you may as well strike a final blow against them.

Global heating is exacerbating drought in Australia. This threatens agriculture and cities' water supplies.

Plutocratist politicians, organized through ALEC, are using captive state legislatures to forbid city initiatives that are inconvenient for business.

Their masters, the businesses, are also suing cities that try to do this.

The replacement of democracy with plutocracy is converting the US government into a government of occupation by the rich. Only democratic governments can be legitimate.

Editors of Malaysian Insider were arrested for "sedition" for publishing an article about steps in legislation.

To have a crime of sedition at all is an attack on human rights. Malaysia has never respected human rights very well, but it is getting worse lately.