Excess of men in China
28 September 2017
China has an excess of 30 million young men, compared with the number of young women. What can China do to ease the pressure on these men?
One idea is, campaign to get rid of the pressure to have children. It is not good for people to have children if they cannot support those children well.
Another idea is, make prostitution a respectable occupation, so that women are not ashamed or blocked from becoming independent prostitutes.
Some rebranding will achieve do these things.
Mainstream news
28 September 2017
If Mainstream News Wants to Win Back Trust, It Cannot Silence Dissident Voices.
Poetry in endangered languages
28 September 2017
A project collects poetry in endangered languages.
Many endangered languages have no script. I hope they accept audio recordings.
Subsidies for fossil fuels
28 September 2017
European countries provide over 100 billion dollars a year in subsidies for fossil fuels.
Coroner's report on Otto Warmbier's body
28 September 2017
The coroner that examined Otto Warmbier's body reports there was no sign of torture such as his parents claimed.
Restriction of safe abortions
28 September 2017
25 million unsafe abortions are carried out each year. Each endangers the woman's health and life.
The reason for unsafe abortions is usually that the law restricts safe ones.
Very urgent: Rule against forced arbitration
28 September 2017
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say not to override the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule against forced arbitration.
UK's deportation threats
28 September 2017
The UK's repeated harsh or "mistaken" deportation threats are making the European Parliament angry.
The "mistake" with that Japanese wife of the Polish man, like several other recent widely reported mistakes, was not really an accident. These result from a desperate and hasty effort to deport as many people as possible. Such an effort will tend to make mistakes in the direction of too much deportation.
Exceptionalism
28 September 2017
The Australian human rights commissioner has warned of the danger of increasing executive power, with terrorism and refugees as excuses.
The US has been overwhelmed by this threat. I hope Australia manages to take advantage of the official warning.
Homeless young adults
28 September 2017
1/5 the young adults in Britain can't find a regular place to live.
They are not "homeless" in US terminology, but this still shows the extent of poverty that the Tories have inflicted.
Oil and arms sponsorship
28 September 2017
The New Scientist magazine, by accepting sponsorship from an oil company and a big armaments company, is selling them legitimacy.
Euthanasia
28 September 2017
The option of aid for suicide must not be a substitute for medical care.
Lucifer heatwave
28 September 2017
Analysis shows that the extreme heat wave of last August in Italy and Spain was largely caused by global heating.
By 2050, worse heat waves will happen every summer.
More debt for Puerto Rico
28 September 2017
The giant creditors of bankrupt Puerto Rico have offered to trade some of its debt for new debt. How generous of them.
I would guess that the new debt would be outside the bankruptcy process.
Global heating refugees
28 September 2017
A couple from Kiribati plead in New Zealand to be accepted as global heating refugees. Their village is regularly submerged by the highest tides.
It is only a matter of time before the effects of global heating submerge the islands of Kiribati.
Squirming pre-schoolers
28 September 2017
Letting children play freely in kindergarten can benefit them, both in grades and in life after graduation from school.
International Space Station
28 September 2017
In 2024, when the International Space Station is scheduled to be shut down, Russia will remove its modules and use them in a Russian space station.
If the modules will still be usable, why end the use of the ISS in 2024?
Catalan web sites blocked
28 September 2017
Spain is trying to shut down all web sites that mention the Catalan referendum that Rajoy is trying to block.
Women in Salafi Arabia
28 September 2017
Women in Salafi Arabia are treated as slaves. And just as with slaves, those who escape are tracked down and dragged back with the help of governments that support slavery.
Affordable housing
28 September 2017
Corbyn has taken a strong position for affordable housing, which includes opposing the privatization-gentrification schemes that replace public housing with expensive housing.
Preacher arrested
28 September 2017
A Christian preacher in Sierra Leone was arrested for calling Islam a "violent religion of lies and deceit".
Every major religion engages in violence, lies and deceit -- sometimes. Even (and how ironic this is) Buddhism. But none of them always does so.
Puerto Rico's hospitals
28 September 2017
Puerto Rico's hospitals (most of them) are without electricity.
Patients can die from this, and surely some already have.
Almost half the population lack safe drinking water. In a week or two, people will begin dying from that.
Economic growth
28 September 2017
This shows that the EU is on the right track.
Economic growth is not desirable unless the non-rich get a bigger share than they have got in the last 3 decades, and increasing taxes on companies is vital for that.
As for cooperation with the US on "global tax reform", the global tax reform that the world needs is to tax businesses more, and the EU can build momentum for it by doing it.
Institutional insanity
28 September 2017
Ralph Nader: US institutions enjoy impunity for all sorts of crimes.
Israeli soldiers killed
28 September 2017
A Palestinian killed three members of the Israeli occupation forces.
Terrorism means making war on civilians. This was not terrorism, because the people attacked were not civilians.
Suppressed voters
28 September 2017
A study estimates that the voter-ID law in Michigan suppressed between 16,000 and 23,000 voters in the 2016 election.
This may have enabled the cheater to win that state.
Rigged economy
28 September 2017
Seeing Economy as 'Rigged' for Rich, 65% Say [US] Corporate Taxes Too Low, Not Too High.
Sessions mocking free speech
28 September 2017
Sessions mocked the idea of freedom of speech by giving a talk in which he pretended to support it.
I am looking for people to post videos of my talks on audio-video.gnu.org.
Urgent: confederate statues
27 September 2017
US citizens: Call on Congress to pass the bill to remove confederate leaders' statues from the US capitol building.
Urgent: NFL players' campaign
27 September 2017
Everyone: call on the US National Football League to support the players' anti-racist campaign.
Earthquake politics
27 September 2017
Mexican political parties try to use disasters such as the recent earthquake to demand political support from voters. The voters are angry at politicians in general.
Contrast this with the US, where the troll is apparently planning to leave Puerto Rico destroyed so as to win points for cruelty with his supporters.
Western New Guinea
27 September 2017
The independence activists of West Papua presented the UN with an underground petition signed by 70% of the population of West Papua.
I can't tell from the article whether "West Papua" refers to the entire Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea (that's how independence activists use the name) or only to one of its two provinces (as the Indonesian state uses the name). For clarity let's call it Western New Guinea.
Indonesia conquered Western New Guinea shortly after the Dutch let go of it. This was a bare-faced act of colonization. New Guinea has no cultural, historic or linguistic link with Indonesia.
Since then, Indonesia sent around a million Javanese colonists to settle in Western New Guinea. 70% of the population could be the fraction that are not colonists.
Allowing women to drive
27 September 2017
Salafi Arabia will allow women to drive.
It is a small but noteworthy step on a long path to equal rights for women.
Washington coal
27 September 2017
The proposed coal export terminal for Washington State has been denied an environmental permit, which could kill the project.
The company will surely hire a lot of lawyers to overturn this decision.
Otto Warmbier
27 September 2017
Otto Warmbier's parents say he showed scars of torture when he arrived in the US.
Low-income dwellings
27 September 2017
The US could lose as many as half a million federally subsidized low-income dwellings in the next five years.
Decriminalizing drugs
27 September 2017
Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001, and the result is to reduce drug problems.
US travel ban
27 September 2017
The troll has made some new adjustments in the travel ban for some Muslims, adding sanctions against a few visitors from Venezuela and North Korea, plus one more largely Muslim country — Chad. The motive for putting Chad on the list is not clear.
Privatization
27 September 2017
How Privatization Cuts Us in Two, While Public Institutions Make Us a Better People.
The troll splitting families
27 September 2017
The troll's pursuit of immigrants is splitting another family.
Urgent: Curb global heating and hurricanes
27 September 2017
US citizens: tell US government officials to curb global heating and thus reduce the strength of hurricanes later in this century.
US race pay gap
27 September 2017
The increasing racial disparity in income in the US demonstrates how powerful racism is.
Even if poverty were equally distributed among racial groups, it would still indicate injustice. It makes no sense to aim for total equality of income, but we should not leave anyone in poverty.
No kids in the park
27 September 2017
In parts of Chicago, the few kids who are allowed to go outside on their own discover that their friends cannot join them in the park.
Maybe they can visit their friends at their homes. That would give them a refreshing example.
Unprotecting rainforest
27 September 2017
Brazil has dropped (for the moment) the plan to unprotect parts of the Amazon rainforest from mining.
Walkability
28 September 2017
(Most of) The U.S. Is Failing At Making Its Communities More Walkable.
Personal tracking devices
28 September 2017
If you carry a personal tracking device (cell phone), figuring out who you are from the location track is usually as easy as pie.
For this reason, I don't carry a personal tracking device. I also reject them because they can be turned in to 24-7 listening devices.
Facebook voter discouragement
28 September 2017
Russian agents used targeted Facebook ads to create conflict and discourage voters.
UK visas
28 September 2017
The UK is becoming an unreliable place to host academic events because it is eager to deny visas to scholars from low-privilege countries.
The US has had this problem for many years, and the troll has made it worse. Canada too -- some speakers could not get to the World Social Forum in Montreal last year.
I am looking for people to post videos of my talks on audio-video.gnu.org.
Truthiness
27 September 2017
Tracing America's current readiness to disregard objective reality back to the 1960s counterculture's magical thinking.
I am skeptical of some of the facts cited, but I find the overall thesis interesting.
Disabled protesters
28 September 2017
SCROTUS chose a small room for the one public hearing about the Dontcare bill.
Disabled Americans got there anyway, and protested against the bill that they expected would make their medical care so expensive they would not have any. Republican senators contemptuously had them dragged away.
Puerto Rico humanitarian crisis
28 September 2017
People in Puerto Rico are in danger of dying because they can't get the medicine they need, or getting sick because they can't get clean water.
The next harvest has been destroyed, so there will be no food produced there for a year.
I am looking for people to post videos of my talks on audio-video.gnu.org.
Urgent: Rebuke Harvard
27 September 2017
US citizens: Rebuke Harvard for choosing the CIA over Chelsea Manning.
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Urgent: Hold Pence accountable
27 September 2017
US citizens: Hold Pence accountable for saying he supports the troll on everything, even vicious things.
Selective memory of history
27 September 2017
Selective memory of history isn't limited to the Vietnam War. Memorials to the Confederacy demonstrate the subsequent use of selective memory in support of the white supremacist cause.
Jellyfish
27 September 2017
I find plain jellyfish boring, but in salads with some vegetable and a dressing I've sometimes enjoyed it greatly.
Crowdsourcing cost of medical care
27 September 2017
Crowdsourcing the highly variable cost of medical care in the US.
China's internet censorship
27 September 2017
China's internet censorship now covers sex, alcohol, and gambling, as well as criticizing policies and officials.
Center-left parties
27 September 2017
Center-left parties that fail to fight the dooH niboR mechanism of plutocracy are headed down the drain. Even if they call themselves "socialist", they are allowing extreme capitalism to push most working people into the gutter.
Kneeling to the US national anthem
27 September 2017
When football players kneel to the US national anthem, they are showing respect for the principles the US aspires to follow, and shining a light on the grinning enemies that try to corrupt it.
Most of the time, all football players do is play football. I don't pay attention, except occasionally to mention the danger of permanent brain damage from playing the sport. Now, however, the players that protest are doing something important.
North Korea and the US
27 September 2017
North Korea's Foreign Minister: Trump Has Declared War on Our Country.
This is silly. North Korea and the US are already at war — there was no peace treaty at the end of the Korean War, only a truce.
Releasing captured wild animals
27 September 2017
The Buddhist practice of releasing captured wild animals harms wild animals and often exploits the people who practice it.
The article's conclusion is stupid, though. There is nothing mild about releasing alien species of lobsters where they don't belong. Species humans have introduced into places where they don't belong have caused the extinction of hundreds of species, perhaps thousands. The ongoing efforts to eradicate some of these species cost millions of dollars every year, in an effort to protect endemic species from extinction.
Places that are probably going to burn
27 September 2017
Maybe we need to curb the construction of houses in places that are probably going to burn, a few decades from now.
It's comparable to the issue of flooding: our greenhouse gas emissions are making worse floods in some seasons and regions, and worse fires in others, and we're encouraging people to put themselves and their property in harm's way.
Federal medical insurance system
27 September 2017
The troll's saboteurs will sabotage enrollment in the federal medical insurance system that the Republicans haven't succeeded in abolishing.
The US intervention in Vietnam
27 September 2017
Comparing the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan with the US intervention in Vietnam.
To claim that the US entered the Vietnam War "in good faith" requires stretching that concept so far that in includes lying at every level, including the false "Gulf of Tonkin incident" in which North Vietnamese vessels supposedly made a feeble and useless attack against US navy vessels. It never happened — it was a lie told by the US military to the American people and the US Congress.
The main US motive for sending troops to Vietnam was to avoid a humiliating defeat. This is the international relations version of the "sunk costs" fallacy: "We've spent so much political capital on that fight that we can't afford to lose now." For a great power fighting a weaker country, that is a recipe for endless war.
The US intervention in Afghanistan follows the same pattern, except that Obama failed to do what Nixon and Gorbachev managed to do.
UK immigration prisons
26 September 2017
An undercover reporter demonstrated how the privatized guards in UK immigration prison get away with gross violence against prisoners.
It's hard enough to stop guards that are state employees from giving way to their cruelty. Privatization creates another level of inaccountability.
Arbitration requirements
26 September 2017
SCROTUS are trying to nullify a ruling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would protect individuals from arbitration requirements from sleazy financial organizations such as Wells Fargo and Equifax.
Repression in Vietnam
26 September 2017
Vietnam is intensifying repression against all sorts of dissidents.
Extinction of food crops
26 September 2017
Many food crops are threatened in the long term through the coming likely extinction of their wild relatives.
The way we breed new varieties for desirable traits is by crossing the plants with their wild relatives. When those are gone, this procedure will be impossible.
Local cultivated varieties are in danger too.
The world-wide concentration of agriculture on 12 plant species and 5 animal species is dangerous, because a disease that harms production of any one of them is an automatic disaster.
Hurricane Maria
26 September 2017
The troll told Puerto Ricans that the desolation from Hurricane Maria is their own fault because of their debt.
This looks suspiciously like a plan by plutocrats to use the storm as an opportunity to force the island to beg for funds for (partial) rebuilding, which will be offered on intolerable conditions.
Taliban's embassy
26 September 2017
The troll wants Qatar to close the Taliban's informal embassy, which provides a point of access for negotiation.
The Taliban have been advancing on the ground, so maybe they are not very interested in making a deal. Maybe the US is now not very interested in making a deal. If there will be no real negotiations in any case, the lack of a way to meet my change nothing. But why throw away the option?
Tinder snooping
26 September 2017
One journalist asked Tinder for all the personal data it had on her, and the 800 pages it got showed her how much it snoops on her.
I hope that, after further thought, she decides to advance beyond "How sad" to "No way!"
The evidence comes from Tinder, but I'd expect it to be typical of services that identify users by name. That's why I call them "disservices," and don't use them.
Censorship versus animal rights
26 September 2017
The Guggenheim Museum has been bullied into censorship by violent threats from animal rights activists.
The arguments cited in the article have blatant illogic. For instance, "Running a dogfight is bad, and this video presents the way dogs are trained for fighting, so this video is bad". Regardless of what we think of the premise, it does not imply the conclusion.
I think censorship is a more important issue than animal rights.
Politics in Australia
26 September 2017
Politics in Australia is based on corporate media that help right-wing politicians deny the nature of the questions that people face.
Dontcare is dead
26 September 2017
The Dontcare bill seems to be dead.
Until someone drives a stake through its heart, it is hard to be quite sure.
Repeal of Obamacare
26 September 2017
Republican leaders were are trying to bribe the few holdout senators to support repeal of Obama's medical insurance plan by offering funds specifically to those states.
That risks tearing America apart by setting state against state.
UK's Terrorism Act
26 September 2017
A leading prisoners' rights campaigner has been convicted for refusing to hand over passwords while entering the UK.
This means a court has affirmed the unjust UK law that was used to menace David Miranda.
Rabbani himself was sentenced to probation, but he will appeal the decision for the sake of human rights in the UK.
Meanwhile, the question for the UK is, "What the hell leads you to treat evidence or torture in Guantanamo as if it were terrorism? The Guantanamo prison itself is what promotes terrorism."
Execution before DNA test
26 September 2017
Texas Schedules Execution but Refuses DNA Tests That Could Prove a Man’s Innocence.
Judges would rather kill an innocent man than admit any doubt in the reliability of the legal system.
Google will survive SESTA
26 September 2017
Google Will Survive SESTA. Your Startup Might Not.
Urgent: Oppose troll's DOJ nominee
26 September 2017
Urgent: US citizens: Tell your senators to oppose the troll's nominee to run the DOJ's antitrust division. He is a pro-monopoly saboteur.
Urgent: Withdraw nomination of Mateer
26 September 2017
US citizens: call on senators to demand withdrawal of Mateer's nomination for federal judge. The article explains why.
Urgent: Oppose the SATWA bill
26 September 2017
US citizens: Oppose the SATWA bill to undermine the Endangered Species Act.
Catalonia
26 September 2017
Catalonians are printing their own ballot papers to replace the ones confiscated by Spanish thugs.
A week ago it was possible for Catalonia to continue as normal part of Spain, and I saw no reason it should not do so. But I think that option no longer exists. At this point, there will inevitably be a loser — either Rajoy, a dooH niboR right-winger who is the enemy of human rights and dissent in Spain, or the Catalonians.
I don't want Rajoy to win.
Paris climate commitments
26 September 2017
Australia is not doing enough to meet its Paris climate commitments.
Keep in mind that those commitments, globally, are not enough to have a good chance of achieving the stated goal, to curb global heating at 1.5 C.
US/Hollywood propaganda
26 September 2017
US/Hollywood propaganda supports US warlikeness by pretending that the Vietnam War was well-meant, and the old US disarmament and peace movements are now almost forgotten in the name of unending war.
Increased US air attacks in Yemen
26 September 2017
The bully has increased the rate of US air attacks in Yemen by a factor of 5.
Only 30 civilian casualties from 93 air attacks is not such a bad job of avoiding civilian casualties. However, if the troll eliminates the rules designed to avoid civilian casualties, which he weakened a few months ago, there could be a lot more of them in the rest of this year.
Sex robots
26 September 2017
Some fear that sex robots would help some people develop a taste for rape.
I think the popularity of porn, and in the future maybe sex robots, comes from the sexual prudery and prissiness of our society where people going through puberty are concerned. They become interested in sex and anyone they have sex with is likely to be jailed for it.
In addition, it is hard for some people, such as those on the autistic spectrum, to find lovers at all. Society could help them.
Covering your face in public
26 September 2017
The injustice of prohibiting people from covering their faces in public is found in Virginia as well as in France.
Right-wing extremists in Germany
25 September 2017
In Germany, as in the US and UK, people hurt by right-wing dooH niboR policies voted for right-wing extremists that distracted them from the real political issue.
Defying Tory laws
25 September 2017
UK Labour leaders talk of defying new Tory laws designed to paralyze unions.
Contempt for freedom of speech in Egypt
25 September 2017
Egypt's military regime threatens students that they will be jailed for a year if they "mock" the Egyptian flag.
That is flagrant contempt for freedom of speech, which includes the right to mock anything. Of course, we wouldn't expect any different from such a repressive country.
Digital Taylorism
25 September 2017
Digital Taylorism is making all jobs oppressive.
Pakistani MP faces abuse
25 September 2017
Pakistani MP Who Says Imran Khan Harassed Her Faces Wave of Abuse.
I lean towards thinking that she should publish the messages so as to prove her case.
US taxes
25 September 2017
The US is almost the lowest major country in level of taxes. The rich pay less in the US than any other.
Many of the largest corporations pay no tax at all.
The US needs to tax the rich and big companies more.
UK NHS planning more cuts
25 September 2017
The UK National Health Service is making secret plans for more cuts in medical care, as the Tories keep starving it.
Equifax data collection
25 September 2017
Equifax collects many kinds of data about people and correlates them for profiling.
Banks should offer each client the option of saying nothing to Equifax (and other credit bureaus) about that client. If you don't want your account or your address to contribute to a credit rating, why should that be imposed on you?
Likewise for all employers. They should not be allowed to tell credit bureaus anything. All they should be allowed to do is give the employee stamped envelopes, saying "Mail these if you wish."
Urgent: discharge petition for DACA
25 September 2017
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to sign the discharge petition for the DACA law.
Kenya election
25 September 2017
A Kenyan court ruled that the election in Kenya must be done over.
West Bank protests
25 September 2017
Israeli colonists in the West Bank usually just throw stones at nonviolent Israeli peace protesters, but recently they attacked the protesters directly and broke a protester's arm.
Then the soldiers who were watching the whole thing arrested the victim of the attack — the protester.
FERC pipeline approval
25 September 2017
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission seized on a technicality to overrule New York State, imposing approval of a pipeline which the state had refused to approve. The state is looking for a way to overturn this in court.
The FERC always approves what fossil fuel companies want.
It could be the textbook case of regulatory capture.
Dam in Puerto Rico
25 September 2017
The dam at Lake Guajataca, Puerto Rico, has not collapsed, as of now. It is only leaking a lot.
Israel's annexation wall
25 September 2017
Israelis and Palestinians marched to condemn Israel's annexation wall, which cuts the Palestinian village of Walaje off from their farms.
This is part of a scheme of slow ethnic cleansing — as Uri Avnery put it, Israel is trying to make the West Bank "arabrein".
If the wall wasn't enough of a hint to the Palestinians that they are all supposed to flee the area, Israel demolished houses in the village.
Cryin'air pilots
25 September 2017
Cryin'air treats pilots so badly that many of them quit. The company can't find new pilots as fast as they quit.
Ocean heating
25 September 2017
Data for a span of just 4 years are enough to show the steady heating of oceans.
In fact, we have decades of data, and the heating can be measured over that whole period.
States' rights
25 September 2017
Republicans say they are for "states' rights", but they mean rights to make life harder for people and aid business. When it comes to allowing states to help people or thwart business, Republicans are opposed.
Fellowship offers
25 September 2017
At Harvard, Chelsea Manning Lost Her Fellowship. At Fordham, a Former CIA Torture Proponent Kept His.
Solar power in poor countries
25 September 2017
The drive to provide solar power to people in poor countries is falling behind population growth.
More funds for renewable power systems would help eliminate the lack of electricity, but more funds for birth control and abortion would work on many different and bigger problems.
Palestinian Authority
25 September 2017
The Palestinian Authority is persistently repressing Palestinians that criticize it.
Rice varieties
25 September 2017
Many of India's 100,000 traditional rice varieties have been lost, replaced by recently developed hybrids. But farmers preserve some of the traditional varieties because they better resist effects of global heating, and/or taste better.
US deficit increase
25 September 2017
US mass media are peculiarly silent about the big increase in the deficit that the increased military budget will cause. The "deficit" issue is brought out only to oppose progressive proposals for government spending.
Urgent: Join rally to defeat Dontcare
25 September 2017
In the US: join rallies today to defeat the latest Dontcare bill.
Urgent: Curb power and abuses of thugs
25 September 2017
Everyone: tell the St Louis mayor to make thugs protect peaceful protests, and to curb the power and abuses of the thugs.
Urgent: Block TV mega-merger
25 September 2017
US citizens: call for blocking the Sinclair-Tribune TV mega-merger.
Urgent: Voter registration
25 September 2017
Everyone: call on the state of Georgia not to prosecute the people that organized submitting 86,000 voter registration forms over the 53 forms that had errors.
Lawless prosecutor of Ferguson
25 September 2017
The lawless prosecutor of Ferguson, who appeared to play tricks to avoid charging the thug with killing Michael Brown, also resisted court orders to release related communications. Now he has given in, and we can see how he was urged to "support your local police" by giving impunity to the one who had killed.
Making drugs safer
25 September 2017
Legalizing possession of drugs is necessary to make them safer.
I have never tried MDMA, but everything I've read suggests that if it were legal it would be far safer than tobacco or alcohol. It should be as legal as they are.
Defeating Guber
25 September 2017
"I'm glad it's all over for Uber in London — and I work for them."
The long-term effect of Guber is to knock drivers' income down. I call the company Guber because it pays drivers peanuts ("goobers"). Drivers need to defeat Guber. But individual drivers that refuse to work for Guber lose income in the short term. They can't defeat Guber unless they organize through the government. Guber does injustice to its customers, too, by tracking them and making them run nonfree software. To help defeat Guber I made a page describing many reasons to reject it.
Please stand up for your own freedom, and for drivers' income, by joining me in absolutely 100% refusing to ride in a Guber car.
Rohingya villages being burned
25 September 2017
Satellite images show that Rohingya villages are still being burned.
Voting rights campaign
25 September 2017
The ACLU has organized a nationwide drive against voter suppression.
Nuclear plants and hurricanes
25 September 2017
Nuclear Plants Plus Hurricanes: Disasters Waiting to Happen.
Parents ordered to rat on children for sharing
25 September 2017
In Germany, parents are ordered to rat on their children for sharing files.
This is an example of collective responsibility: "You over there! Watch that group and report any disobedience! If you ever fail to report them, we will punish you for their disobedience."
Germany has imposed other forms of collective responsibility to the repression of sharing.
To try to stop people from sharing copies is unjust at the root. That is why it tends to lead to unjust measures such as collective responsibility.
Drone attacks
25 September 2017
Amnesty International to the bully: don't adopt a policy of ignoring risk of civilian casualties when planning drone attacks.
He wants to eliminate the last remaining safeguards against killing lots of civilians.