The right-wing government of Australia is making Indigenous people work for 5 dollars an hour.

Another secret "trade treaty", the "Trade in Services Agreement", attacks internet freedom in the ways that plutocrats generally want to.

I expect it does other things to deregulate companies and weaken democracy, because those are the purposes for which plutocrats set up those treaties. We don't need to see the details to determine they are bad.

George Stinney would be 84 years old if he had not been executed on false charges at the age of 14.

This is one of the reasons why the death penalty should be abolished.

The judge suspected Stinney was tortured or tricked into making a confession. The latter is often easy with naive kids that aren't street-smart and believe thugs are to be trusted.

Fights Break Out in Kenyan Parliament over Controversial Anti-Terrorism Laws.

The dangerous law has been passed, threatening journalism and dissent in Kenya.

Ukraine has established a "ministry of information policy", supposedly to counter Russian propaganda, but it threatens to impose censorship of dissent.

Ukraine is in the middle of a civil war; some action against Russian propaganda is legitimate. But this kind of action threatens to be dangerous. What claims to be "hate Russia" could really be "like Russia".