California prison guards are retaliating sadistically for the prisoners' hunger strike.

Many of the so-called "gang members" have been "identified" based on coincidences.

Corporate Internet surveillance is nasty in its own right, not solely because all the data is available to Big Brother.

People who arrive in Australia by boat will be arbitrarily refused asylum.

In other words, asylum is only for those wealthy enough, and unpersecuted enough, to get on a plane.

ALEC is pushing bills in many states to reduce the compensation businesses pay when they injure people.

If these bills pass, big corporations will do more things that injure people. They are psychopaths by their structure, and too big to be restrained by anyone's human conscience; "I'll sue" is the only language they understand.

A gay rights activist in Cameroon was tortured and murdered in his home.