The Hong Kong protest has grown to around 10,000 again, and thugs had to give up on attacking the protesters.

Pakistan continues sentencing people to death for blasphemy, after trials that would be unjust even for a real crime.

Changing the trials and the penalties would make the blasphemy law do less damage, but would not make it just. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend or insult any person, real or imaginary. Criminalizing blasphemy was wrong in Britain, just as it is wrong in Pakistan today.

The unfair trials are a second injustice, and the murder of politicians is a third. What all three have in common is that they are perpetrated by religious fanatics who believe they are entitled to use force against those who would criticize them.

Environment defenders are moving their money out of Australia's big banks to pressure them to divest from fossil fuels. They claim $250 million has already been moved for this reason.

This goes with warnings that fossil fuel reserves are a bubble that has to burst.

The French senate voted for the Loi Cazeneuve, which imposes dangerous censorship.

Will Chevron succeed in buying municipal elections in Richmond, California?