Thanks to fracking, the town of Barnhart, Texas, ran out of water.

Fracking adds to many other forms of overuse, which are running headlong into reduced rainfall caused by global heating.

Teachers in the UK's deregulated "academy" schools report pressure from their managers to inflate grades.

This is a natural consequence of "grading" schools by the average grades of students.

German justice minister proposes ban for US firms that don't abide privacy laws.

Meanwhile, the German spy agency (BND) is passing metadata on to the NSA.

A new method for attacking dissident US journalists: send them a "leak" which is really "child" pornography, and get them imprisoned when they look.

To criminalize possession of any kind of digital material is an injustice, and endangers all other human rights.

The President of Purdue University, when previously Governor of Indiana, tried to ban Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the US" from schools in that state.