Ironically, narrow French business interests may thwart a proposed free exploitation agreement between the EU and the US.

Any such treaty would favor large companies and harm people in the US and Europe. Preventing it, in any manner, would be a triumph. How disappointing that no government in Europe is prepared to oppose it on principle.

Senators report that massive surveillance goes far beyond what recent leaks have disclosed.

Turkey has held defense lawyers prisoner since January without charges, apparently for defending people that the state wants to railroad.

Pollution from uranium mines is causing birth defects in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Journalists and human rights defenders that investigate secret uranium mining get threatened or killed.

Massachusetts citizens: support the extended bottle deposit bill.