[Australia's] Asylum Secrecy on the High Seas Is Designed to Foil the Enemy Within — The Law.

A minister sees no sign of torture in Sri Lanka. In effect, he says he saw many Tamils who are not in prison or being tortured.

Some imprisoned asylum seekers have attempted suicide hoping to improve their children's chances of receiving asylum.

This suggests that those are economic migrants, aiming to get their children into Australia rather than fleeing persecution.

The former speaker of the Israeli Parliament asks for a nonviolent Palestinian movement to pressure Israel into accepting peace.

On the social demand for collective mourning for people one did not know.

I rejected the collective mourning for those who died in the September 2001 attacks; while Americans were supposed to feel angry and afraid, I focused instead on resisting the coming attack on our freedom.

Israeli troops confiscated the computers of Palestinian cultural magazines.

US citizens: Tell the EPA to suspend use of neonicotinoid pesticides. There's plenty of evidence tying them to colony collapse of bees, and since they accumulate, it will take time for them to decrease in the environment.