The US-backed Twitter imitation for Cuba will undermine all other efforts aimed at offering uncensored internet access to Cubans.

Just as the US's use of a vaccination program as cover for finding Osama bin Laden has undermined the eradication of polio.

Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who helped the movement that brought down Mubarak, gives an interview while out on bail. He is being prosecuted for organizing a protest; also, absurdly, for armed robbery.

He expects to be imprisoned, along with many other human rights defenders in Egypt. His trial is likely to be a sick joke.

It was sad how many Egyptians that wanted freedom supported the coup and got themselves Mubarak Heavy.

A US court threw out the lawsuit by relatives of US citizens killed by Obama's drone attacks, saying that officials are immune from prosecution for whatever they do in war.

Since the US is not officially at war in Yemen, this appears to give the president the legal authority to kill anyone, anywhere outside the US.

Citizens of Massachusetts: call on the legislature to ban new pipelines for fracked gas in Massachusetts.

US citizens: call for a reduction in student loan interest rates so the US stops making money from struggling graduates.