*Chilean lawmakers agree to referendum on new constitution.*

Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger is effectively in house arrest because of a ruling that Chevron obtained from a judge that is obviously biased.

Many cities and states are building public broadband internet so as to offer the limited network neutrality that Republicans eliminated.

These cities and states should take the opportunity to prohibit making any record of who a user contacts over the internet, in the absence of a specific subpoena.

The Environmental Protection Agency determined that atrazine was poisoning fish, so its unofficial Republican replacement, the Environmental Poisoning Agency, is going to permit 50% more of it.

Atrazine is an endocrine disruptor and also associated with birth defects in humans as well as in aquatic animals.

Massive Anti-Coup Protests Explode Across Bolivia 'Against the Many Violations to Democracy'.

In Cochabamba, the thugs shot at these protesters, and perhaps killed some. The Bolivian thugs defended the right to protest for the upper-class protesters that opposed Morales, but not those of his (often indigenous) supporters.