Australia's prison for boat people is intended to make future boat people stay away, so it is intentionally cruel. About 1/3 of the prisoners have mental health problems.

One epileptic had seizures because the government took away her anti-seizure medicine and did not supply more. Some children are described as having given up eating because it was not worth living.

The prisons are cruel to people with non-mental illnesses, too. This article (mostly overlapping) informs us that the thugs confiscated eyeglasses and hearing aids too.

The Australian government representative was shocked people could doubt the benign intentions and good judgment of the government, which are of course beyond question.

Pervasive surveillance in the US forces journalists and lawyers to use spy techniques to communicate with their source and clients.

Although the Senate is now considering a bill that would make it harder for the NSA to collect records in bulk, that would not prevent targeted investigations aimed at a journalist to find the journalist's sources. The approach of limiting access to giant digital dossiers is simply not capable of solving the problem. We must stop the creation of these dossiers.

Comparing the Senate bill with the toothless House bill.

The unregulated "shadow banking system" vitiates the regulations that were intended to make banks more stable.

What is "terrorism"? Hamas uses tunnels into Israel to attack soldiers — which is war, not terrorism.

Israel bombards civilians, homes of the families of Hamas members, hospitals, and power plants — which is terrorism, not war.

With Blackouts, Food Shortages And Sewage in the Streets, Observers Say the IDF Either Targets Civilians Or Has Terrible Aim.

Delaying Climate Action Will Carry Heavy Economic Cost, White House Warns.

It's true, but the fact that one must cite economic losses as a reason to prevent worldwide disaster is a testament to plutocracy.

More explanation of the report.