Snowden has dropped his request for asylum in Russia in response to Putin's statement that the condition would be to shut up.

A US military study found that, empirically, drone attacks in Afghanistan are ten times deadlier per attack to civilians than attacks using manned bombers.

Meanwhile, the US has little ability to tell whether the casualties from drone attacks outside Afghanistan were civilians.

A UK government agency knew for years that companies were regularly breaking into other companies' computers, and decided to suppress the issue.

A community currency in a slum in Kenya was working well for alleviating poverty, but the organizers have been charged with "forgery".

These charges are obviously absurd, but I fear that the state will excuse them based on a legal lie.

In the US: rebuke the Texas legislature for trying to ban abortions.