After one repressive measure in Hong Kong (banning face masks), Lam threatens a curfew next.

Hong Kong elections are rigged, a sham, so delaying one would be no loss.

US citizens: call on Congress to prevent awarding Title X funds to phony clinics that mislead women.

Imprisonment in Bilibid jail is effectively a death sentence: a prisoner's half-life is just three years.

The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism.

The repression of Kashmir has continued so long that we cannot consider it a momentary action. It is a lasting military occupation.

India used to be a democracy, with some problems. Now it is being rapidly modi-fied into outright repressive tyranny.

Now that Lula's trial has been exposed as corrupt, prosecutors want to release him from prison while letting his conviction stand. Lula insists on exoneration, which would allow him to run for office again.

The real question is, how to get rid of ecocidal president Bolsonaro and allow Lula to assume the office he would surely have won if not for the unfair trial against him.