US citizens: call your congresscritter and say, don't sign Gene Green's letter because it opposes network neutrality.

I got the info from this article, but you shouldn't report your call to them because the page requires nonfree Javascript code.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

Sudan has sentenced a woman to death for marrying a non-Muslim.

The death penalty is always a injustice, but not the only one. To punish this in any fashion represents denial of human rights.

Muslim countries typically do not respect religious freedom. The oppression is greatest on non-Muslims, but, as this article shows, they oppress Muslims too.

To punish her would be equally unjust if she had had an affair instead of a marriage. Neither one is wrong.

An aide to would-be Turkish tyrant Erdogan kicked a protester who was being held by two soldiers acting as thugs.

Erdogan is right that mines have a long history of fatal accidents — but why? Often this is because the mine companies skimp on safety, which they can do because governments fail to do their job and force the mine companies to do the job right.

It appears that the US and other governments that favor use of fossil fuels interfered with the latest IPCC report, weakening the "summary for policymakers" to understate the danger.

A few years ago, global heating deniers fabricated a phony scandal based on the leaked emails of climate scientists, distorting their words to claim that the scientists were overstating the danger. It will be interesting to see whether they condemn the intervention of much more powerful parties.

Not surprisingly, the Putin-supporting Russians that took over Crimea are torturing and killing Tatars that oppose the takeover.

It's possible that the people of the Crimea would have voted in a free and fair election to become part of Russia. The Tatar minority would be disappointed, but they would not be entitled to a veto.

But there was no such election, only a Soviet-style charade.

The pro-Putin forces in Donetsk used intimidation to "win" their "election".