In Venezuela, some people in the opposition are being prosecuted for expressing happiness about an assassination.

I managed to see some of Inés González Árraga's tweets; they were quite hostile to the government, but did not make threats or call for violence.

Documents show US drug companies wined and dined doctors to get them to prescribe narcotic painkillers more.

These painkillers certainly have their place. It has been a long time since I took one, but they are far better than pain. However, these sales tactics (for any drug) corrupt medicine and must not be tolerated.

A series of bank scandals, leading to large fines, are the predictable result of deregulation.

I suspect that the fines are not big enough to motivate the bank executives and shareholders to try to prevent more corruption. In the US, they aren't. The result of inadequate fines is that the executives would like another corrupt scheme to make a lot of money followed by an inadequate fine.

Complicated and changing banking systems will tend to offer new opportunities for corruption. Let's have a simple banking system that changes little.

The coal company government of Australia fought to the bitter end inside the G20 meeting to undermine actions against global heating.

The FBI used surveillance to try to pressure Martin Luther King Jr. commit suicide.

We know that the NSA now does surveillance to get data for blackmail.