The UK government admits, under pressure, that fracking causes environmental damage, but is mad to go ahead with it anyway.

Human Rights Watch and the ACLU say that lawyers' and journalists' work is threatened by US massive surveillance.

For the lawyers, encryption of the contents of email could be enough of a solution. However, journalists also need to protect their sources' identity, and surveillance of their communication metadata is enough to ruin that. I've stated the solution.

Qatar World Cup: Migrants Wait a Year to Be Paid for Building Offices (for the event). The contractor went bankrupt and never paid them, so they are trapped in Qatar because they have no money to leave, and could be imprisoned because they no longer have the right to be in Qatar.

This is part of a general system that treats migrant workers so badly that some of them die from it.

You can punish the Qatari state personally by not taking flights on Qatar Airways, which is owned by the government of Qatar.

US citizens: call on Obama and Holder not to imprison reporter James Risen.

Risen is ready to go to prison to avoid putting a whistleblower in danger. The US government is wrong to try to make this necessary.

US citizens: Call on the FCC to hold public hearings around US about net neutrality.