The proposed "European internet" is not meant to protect Europeans from massive surveillance.

A UK court ruled in favor of the interrogation of David Miranda even though it was intended to interfere with press freedom.

Laws that authorize oppression are typical of unjust regimes. All that court did was confirm, yet again, that the UK is one of them.

Where Syrian Islamists take control, they oppress women, and men too.

"Free trade" agreements block vital regulations on banks.

The US taught Australia how to spy on the Indonesian government about its position in a trade dispute with the US.

If the trade dispute was the one about clove-flavored cigarettes, Indonesia deserves no sympathy for insisting the US allow those deadly addictive products. Trade treaties are being used world-wide to block measures to discourage smoking, which is an additional reason those treaties must be abolished. But these treaties and the surveillance are different issues.