Salafi Arabia is about to execute 14 people for protesting, after trying them in a Guantanamo-style kangaroo court.

That the autocratic state responded shows that campaigns of criticism are making progress. If we keep on, we can make Salafi Arabia too toxic for other countries to ally with.

Singapore's government is demonstrating its repressive nature by seeking to prosecute a citizen for criticizing repression.

The private dispute this arose from is a side issue. We need not have any opinion about that dispute to condemn the repression.

Extreme weather events, caused by global heating, are forecast to kill 150,000 people a year in Europe in the last third of this century.

That is using a middling climate scenario. With the worst climate scenario, it would be worse.

Of course, this does not include spreading tropical diseases, food shortages, and wars. They could kill hundreds of millions of people each year.

The constituent assembly of Venezuela has replaced the chief prosecutor, a Chavista who opposed the plan to replace Chavez's constitution.

An eviction company in the UK revealed what landlords really think about their tenants by calling tenants "household pests".

"This would be a great apartment building if only there were no tenants getting in the way."