The court ruling against the EU data retention directive also cited the further violation of privacy from allowing the data to be stored outside the reach of EU personal data protection law.

A Russian destabilization campaign is under way in eastern Ukraine, threatening a military invasion as in the Crimea.

Russia claims that a similar US-led destabilization campaign helped kick out President Yanukovich. That might well be true.

There is a gray area between a destabilization campaign and aiding a real popular uprising: the subtler the campaign, the more it shades into rallying the public, and the more it is the public that really has control, which means the campaign is not so bad. The "protests" in Eastern Ukraine smell very fishy to me.

The occupiers of a building in Kharkiv were removed by Ukrainian thugs. I won't criticize that if it was not done in a brutal way. However, calling them "terrorists" is an example of a very dangerous practice. Occupying a building is not terrorism.

Protesters in the US have been accused of "terrorism" too. And don't forget the Greenpeace protesters accused of "piracy" in Russia.

On the other hand, taking hostages, as pro-Russian protesters did in one city, may qualify as terrorism.

China is imprisoning anti-corruption protesters.

Shaker Aamer's lawyers argue the US is obliged to release him from Guantanamo due to serious physical and mental illnesses, some of them probably caused by torture and cruelty.

A review of available experimental data for 60 diseases found that there is no evidence homeopathy has any more effect than a placebo, and in many cases clear evidence that it does not.

"Treating the whole person" is one of medical quackery's favorite claims.