Edward Snowden thanks the European Parliament for addressing the issue of massive surveillance, saying "The work of a generation is beginning here."

Republicans use bullying tactics because this has worked for them over and over.

The Naming the Dead project aims to identify and describe all the people killed by drone attacks in Pakistan.

In the US: protest against massive surveillance in Washington DC on Oct 26.

An absurd US law forbids Chinese people from entering any NASA building, and many US scientists are boycotting a NASA conference about exoplanets because of its exclusion of Chinese scientists.