The Egyptian trial of three reporters for "endangering national security" shows that the prosecution is a sick joke.

Ma Jian, who was a protester at Tiananmen Square 25 years ago, describes what happened there and the Chinese repression of all reference to it.

On two occasions there are connection between Islamists fighting in Syria and murder of Jews.

This is still a fringe phenomenon, but all Islamists advocate repression that violates freedom of speech and freedom of religion. In particular, the religious freedom of anyone they decide is supposed to be a Muslim.

Religious repression in Israel and Arab countries requires couples to go to Cyprus to marry.

The US government plans to make a database with lots of intrusive information about everyone in the US that has a mortgage.

It is possible private data brokers already have all the same information about them. Does anyone know?