Berlusconi has been found guilty of paying an underage prostitute, and then using his official powers to cover it up.

The US infiltrated anti-war activists as "domestic terrorists"; this is proved because one infiltrator confessed.

UK thugs infiltrated groups that criticized the behavior of thugs (for instance, corruption and apparent killing of prisoners).

The UK human rights group Liberty demands an investigation of whether it has been spied on.

The IRS used various phrases to choose groups to study carefully, but studied them all by the same criteria.

The IRS also looked for some keywords associated with progressive groups for special scrutiny.

A Chinese state-run newspaper praised Snowden for "tearing off Washington's sanctimonious mask".

US condemnations of China's human rights abuses are typically valid, and China's condemnations of US human rights abuses are typically valid too. These two governments increasingly resemble and deserve each other, but both Americans and Chinese deserve something better.

Thousands joined the latest Moral Monday protest in North Carolina.