The UK thugs placed two Green Party legislators on the "domestic extremism" surveillance list.

"Extremism" means "failure to uphold the ruling extractivist regime".

A Murdoch newspaper in Australia published a report claiming that plain packaging for cigarettes has increased sales. It seems to be a false report.

The fact that the report is backed by the tobacco companies shows it can't be true. If this policy really did increase cigarette sales, they would favor the policy.

One of the distortions from the Australian has infiltrated the Guardian article: the term "intellectual property rights". That term is a misleading generalization about unrelated laws, and it's used to suggest these laws represent a bogus "principle" that never existed in the first place.

Every statement formulated using "intellectual property rights" should be distrusted. I take care not to use the term. I won't even cite it without denouncing it as bogus.

See http://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html.

More US Bombs And Drones Will Only Escalate Iraq's Horror.

US citizens: Call on Congress to reopen the Social Security offices that it has shut down.

Iran's women rebel little by little against the regime's clothing monitors, who have given up on harassing men.