The European Commission is negotiating an antidemocratic "trade treaty" in secrecy, and turned water cannon on 1000 protesters in Brussels.

Based on previous treaties we have ever reason to expect these negotiators to be trying to attack democracy and human rights. The burden is on them to show they have changed their spots. Surely their most violent attack on the public is the treaty itself.

Evidence that the US is still trying to prosecute Julian Assange.

Republicans in Kansas have imposed a policy on the state university that professors can be fired for tweeting anything the university chooses to consider harmful.

The chief of Australian Customs refused to tell a senator whether a chart of a ship's entry into Indonesian waters is accurate.

In the US: tell Scott you will boycott its products until it drops the Roundup-ready grass.

This GMO grass, engineered to be resistant to Roundup, will not be eaten by humans. But the Roundup could poison people who play on those perfect lawns.

Meanwhile, it will get into all the grass around the US, making organic beef impossible.