US citizens: Tell Congress to end predatory phone rates for prisoners.

After the constitutional coup a few years ago, Paraguay has fallen into the hands of supporters of the former military dictatorship.

I wonder whether the US or right-wing US oligarchs have played a role in this.

Proposed EU laws for government access to data stored by services would require every company operating there to understand the details of each EU country's laws, and obey them even when forbidden by the laws of their own country. This burden would be crushing for small companies. In addition, companies would face almost irresistible pressure to sacrifice privacy to err on the side of compliance.

Syrian Medics 'Subjected to Extreme Intimidation' After Douma Attack.

I don't know anything about the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations. For all I know, it might be an arm of the Islamist rebels and as dishonest as Assad. But the Guardian reporters say they talked directly with doctors and victims. For Assad to push this hard to pretend there was no attack suggests he did the attack.

Disabled people in the UK can't afford food and heating after all the aid cuts.