Imprisoned, Threatened, Silenced: Human Rights Workers Across Asia Are in Danger (from the state).

The Onion: … high-ranking officials at the National Security Agency reportedly spent Wednesday morning scrambling to reestablish the whereabouts of a man who had covered his laptop camera with a piece of electrical tape.

The Onion: Israel Defense Forces soldier Yossi Saadon recounted Tuesday his harrowing, heroic war story of killing an 8-month-old Palestinian child during a violent attack against protesters.

Serious coverage of the same event.

The Tories plan to speed up fracking projects, bypassing local planning entirely.

It is hard to understand what could possibly motivate them to enable local opposition to kill wind-farm projects easily while making it impossible to stop fracking. Unless it is that they are getting money from fossil fuel companies.

Why Are For-Profit US Prisons Subjecting [prisoners] to Forced Labor?

The short answer is, "because they can."