A technique helps people get more information from FOIA requests to the FBI, so the FBI wants to shut down all FOIA requests for 7 years.

The FBI says that these requests threaten national security. I think the FBI threatens national security and doesn't want us to find out about it.

A chapter of the TPP has been leaked, covering a wide range of topic including copyrights, patents, ISP censorship, and international tribunals that don't care about human rights.

Not surprisingly, the US government takes the harshest position towards people (including Americans). However, there is no possible good to be achieved by such a treaty; all it can do is harm.

This would attack our freedom in many unrelated ways, but the most basic attack, which paves the way for the others, lies in lumping together so many unrelated laws and issues and calling them "intellectual property" as if they had some coherent relationship. That term spreads confusion, and if we repeat it when criticizing the details of the chapter, we're undermining our own side.

The TPP's an attack on public health.

13 US cities held protests against the TPP.

Support the campaign to ban autonomous killer robots.

23 Petty Crimes That Have Landed People in Prison for Life Without Parole.

Morsi called the head of the military government a "traitor" and refuses to cooperate with the trial proceedings.

Relatives of the people whose murder Morsi's accused of inciting placed the charges before the coup. I won't say that Morsi can't be guilty of this; I don't know the facts. If he is guilty, that justifies some sort of prosecution, but doesn't justify a military coup.