Psychotherapy can teach people to refrain from cruelty on the Internet.

A cute video can put a species in danger.

Bahrainis have launched a renewed push for freedom despite laws more repressive than ever. Will the US support the repression because a fleet is based there?

Egyptian soldiers attacked a mosque occupied by pro-Morsi protesters. Armed men fired from the minaret. The protesters say that the doors to the minaret were controlled by the thugs, which would suggest that this was a false flag operation meant to create an excuse to attack the protesters. But even if they were real Morsi-supporters shooting at the soldiers, after being victims of a massacre while unarmed, they can't be blamed for fighting back.

Most Egyptians seem to be glad that the Muslim Brotherhood is out of power. I too would be glad of that if I were Egyptian. But banning the Muslim Brotherhood means excluding a large part of society from democracy. This is a recipe for inspiring an armed Islamic terrorist movement to replace the nonviolent movement that has just been defeated.

Fighting that will require long-term repression. How can there be room for democracy alongside that? I think the military are planning not to allow democracy.

The UK government's plutocratic policies are pushing even working people to use food banks.