Dubai has released Matthew Hedges on bail, but he shows the ill effects of almost 6 months of solitary confinement.

He will have to face a bogus trial represented by a lawyer he cannot communicate with.

US citizens: call on Congress to ban organophosphate pesticides.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Human Rights Watch says that Palestinian thugs routinely torture Palestinian dissidents, much as Israeli thugs do.

Bernie Sanders is more deeply opposed to plutocracy than Elizabeth Warren is.

I will vote for Warren for senator, and probably for president if she wins the Democratic nomination. (It would be her or the Green Party.) But my choice is Sanders.

Poor people in Dakar have to spend a lot of their income paying a cartel monopolistic prices to empty their septic tanks and latrines.

The article recommends "Uber for poop", but I think that this is different from Uber in a crucial way.

Uber is an unjust democracy-threatening surveillance system that tracks customers' movements. By contrast, calling a company to empty your septic tank does not give it important data about your life. This service might be morally legitimate.