100,000 people in Turkey are in jail facing charges of participating in the coup attempt several years ago.

The coup attempt was real and violent, and it is legitimate to try the people who participated in that. But it is impossible to have a secret plan with 100,000 participants. Most of the people accused must be innocent, one way or another.

One real benefit from the UK's departure from the EU: ending the landowner subsidy.

Switzerland considered a law to hold Swiss companies responsible for human rights and environmental crimes in other countries, but it failed to win in a majority of the cantons.

Dissident Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee has fled to Taiwan and operates a book store there. He warns that we must do more to defend Taiwan.

I think the US should recognize Taiwan and tell China, "We hope to maintain diplomatic relations with China also."

Craig Murray is facing pressure to censor Alexa by stopping it from quoting his criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestine. Supposedly it represents antisemitism.

I do not support separating Scotland from the UK. The problems that Scotland faces come from the plutocratist government of the UK, and the right thing to do is fix that for the whole UK, not separate one piece from it. Besides, what Murray says about the SNP shows that an independent Scotland will tend to yield to plutocratist "normality".

There are also bad business-supremacy treaties that the UK has agreed to, but an independent Scotland would surely yield to pressure to sign the same treaties, so independence would do no good.