Racism in the SAE fraternity goes beyond one local branch.

An interview with Herbert Ziegler, who rejected Japanese government demands that he delete forced prostitution for the Japanese army from his history textbook.

Just about every nation has crimes to confess to. The US has plenty. So does Japan. The US has confessed to some, including mistreatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and this made the American nation more ethical and humane. Japan should confess to its crimes in order to make the Japanese nation more ethical and humane.

Likewise, Turkey should confess to the genocide of the Armenians, to make the Turkish nation more ethical and humane, instead of prosecuting people that talk about it.

And all governments, including that of France, should stop legislating what history should say.

Saudi human rights campaigner Mohammed al-Bajadi has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A Russian expat claims that around 42,000 different Russian troops have participated in the fighting in Ukraine at some time.

He also claims that many of them are conscripts and that special troops are deployed behind them to shoot them if they run away. The "Dzerzhinskiy division" is apparently named after the man who lead the Soviet political repression police agency.

I don't know how much confidence to place in the author of this report and I won't treat this as certain truth.

A leading global heating denialist is threatening to sue the authors of "Merchants of Doubt".