Why Ecuador Would Be an Ideal Refuge for Edward Snowden.

Criminalizing libel is an injustice, but lots of countries do it, including the UK, France and Italy. A man was arrested in France just for saying "Sarkozy I see you" when he witnessed an injustice. We should campaign to abolish these laws, in whatever country suffers from them, but in the mean time this is no reason to condemn Ecuador.

US citizens: call on the EPA to follow its own conclusions and protect Bristol Bay, by banning Pebble Mine, if you haven't done so already.

The Koch brothers are recruiting lots of people to submit comments in favor of the mine. Please help cancel them out!

Someone started violence before 100,000 started a peaceful mass protest in Chile.

I wonder if the violence was organized by thugs as a provocation. That is standard thug tactics.

Glenn Greenwald gives suggestive evidence his Skype conversation was monitored.

The UK's program to get disabled people to work is failure at its stated purpose. However, it was quite effective at fabricating excuses to cut off benefits by falsely claiming that people were not disabled.