Kashmiris report beatings and torture by the Indian army of occupation.

Since India is responsible for the lack of communications in Kashmir and the lack of official responses, we must presume these accusations are valid.

Protests against fracking have been effectively banned in Britain. The protesters have lost the legal support from Friends of the Earth because the organization can't afford the risk of being made to pay the frackers' legal bills.

The frackers can make that prohibitively expensive just by spending a lot.

A foreign mining company wants to open a gold mine that could poison Armenia's water supply. Protesters have blocked the mine, but the company threatened to use business-supremacy treaties to sue the country if the government does not attack the protesters.

The government of Armenia should pull out of those treaties and negotiate new treaties without ISDS ("I Sue Democratic States").

Companies that make exploitative "investment" deals with a corrupt, nondemocratic government deserve to lose the investment. That will teach them not to make exploitative deals with a corrupt, nondemocratic government.

Technology for deducing thoughts from observations of the brain is still in its infancy, but it is not too early to discuss legal limits for it.

The right number 1 in this article, "to freely decide you want to use a given neurotechnology or to refuse it," is obviously insufficient. You have the right to decide whether an insurance company can track your car's movements with a GPS box, but many people can't afford the extra cost of insurance without tracking. You have the right to work without a LinkedIn account, but many jobs will pass you by if you don't.

We need a stronger version of that right, one which will stop anyone from pressuring you to say yes.

The bully is considering ordering another tax cut, mainly for the rich.

Non-rich Americans would get some benefit when they sell their houses, but they don't do this very often and the benefit would be small by comparison. What non-rich Americans need more is the government spending that would be cut in order to avoid the deficit that this tax cut will cause.

It adds up to dooH niboR.