Maduro said he would ban three opposition parties from future elections because they boycotted the mayoral elections yesterday.

Since Maduro has effectively suspended the constitution of Venezuela, he can do this arbitrarily.

In Turkey, signers of a petition calling for an end to Erdoğan's civil war against the Kurds are on trial for "propaganda for terrorism".

Many of them have been punished already in various ways.

When your country proposes measures that would endanger human rights in the name of "fighting terrorism", remember that "terrorism" will mean whatever a future government says it means.

In the US and Europe, "anti-terrorism" measures have already gone much too far. Government attacks on human rights are potentially far more deadly than underground terrorism, because governments are stronger than underground terror groups. We need to make them strong so they can do their job, so we must keep them in check by defending human rights from them.

Nuclear war is "one tantrum away".

A German court rejected collective responsibility for ISP services: the official subscriber cannot be required to snoop on other residents and family members to see which one did forbidden sharing.

The US is not training enough doctors to perform abortions. This is partly a result of pressure by theocratist Christians.