The world music festival Womad says that many musicians refuse even to try to perform in the UK, because they don't want to face the intentionally hostile environment.

"Democracy Has Died": Cambodia's Exiled Politicians Call for Election Boycott.

The real Iranian progressive movement begs the bully to end the US sanctions against Iran.

A foreign conflict is exactly what any illiberal regime prays for. People will forgive the regime when there is a foreign threat it can claim to be standing up to.

A UK parking garage company threatened a customer who entered "O" instead of "0" in per license plate number. The company's software refused to recognize "0".

However, that is only a secondary wrong. The company's primary wrong was in asking for the license plate number.

Greeks blame the government for being unprepared to help save people from the wildfire.

Preparations cost money. Are the euro-banksters responsible for this?

Another cause was that people illegally built houses on land that was supposed to be reserved for escape routes. That sort of corruption is typical of Greece.