- Rally to Restore Your Rights on July 4th
- Text of a July 2, 2013, letter to Edward Snowden from his father and father's attorney
- NSA revelations: why so many are keen to play down the debate—"The mass surveillance that Edward Snowden has exposed asks questions not only of government but of telecoms companies too."
- America's founders would be horrified at this United States of Surveillance—"How did we become so fearful and timid that we've given away essential liberties? Some are even afraid to speak up."
- To those who say 'trust the government' on NSA spying: Remember J. Edgar Hoover's FBI?
- FISA Court Judges Aren't Happy That The Public Is Upset Secret Court Issuing Secret Rulings Allowing NSA To Spy On Them
- Police State Canada: Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) Runs Massive Domestic Spying Program
- Bolivia denies Snowden on Morales' plane—"Bolivia is furious its president's plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Austria because of a rumour US fugitive Edward Snowden was on board." No such thing as sovereignity to the world police.
- 'Act of aggression': Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
- Bolivia vs. Europe over Snowden-linked plane delay
- Bulgarian protests continue, is the world watching?
- Showdown? Egypt's Morsy defies military 'ultimatum'
- Bug Found in Ecuador's Embassy in London—Where Assange is still holed up.
- Czech Businessman Resists Corruption—"A Czech businessman refused to bribe two officials, instead reporting them to the police. His actions came amid recent corruption scandals that have proliferated the Czech upper political ranks lately."
- Canada: Meet Neil, better known as Slurpy, the Rob Ford lookalike at centre of scrapped plot to film fake crack video
- In Uzbekistan, Everyone's A Pop Critic, Including The Government—"Uzbekistan's Culture and Sports Ministry has announced a ban on 'meaningless' songs that fail to 'praise the motherland.'"
- Insult someone on Twitter or Facebook? A crime in Grenada—"Lawmakers on the island of Grenada are tired of online "mischief." So they've banned it. How might this affect the nation's discourse?"
- First Evidence Of Iranian Internet Throttling as a Form of Censorship—"Internet security expert publishes first evidence that Iran uses internet throttling to prevent the spread of information during periods of public unrest." But there are signs of change.
- EU charges 13 banks, ISDA, Markit with breaching EU antitrust rules—"Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays and Morgan Stanley also among banks charged."
- Major banks still vulnerable to money laundering, says top regulator—"Britain's major banks remain vulnerable to being used to fund terrorism and money laundering by criminal gangs, despite being fined billions of pounds in recent years for failing to crackdown on illegal financing."
- Judge OKs HSBC laundering penalty—'A judge in New York has approved a deal that will allow HSBC to pay a record 1.9 billion-dollar (£1.25 billion) penalty to settle claims that the British bank helped Mexican drug traffickers, Iran, Libya and others under US suspicion or sanction move their money around the world."
- OLAF may reopen Dalli case over Bahamas trip to 'move millions' - International Herald Tribune
- Vatican scandal: Two high-profile resignations follow arrest of monsignor
- Africa's Western Black Rhino is Now Officially Extinct
- Over 30 Million Bees Found Dead In Elmwood Canada
- Japan's Whaling Is Not Science, Expert Witness Tells World Court
- Deforestation rising in Amazon countries outside Brazil
- All Coral Reefs Could Die by Century's End
- Dead fish fill Mexico reservoir—"Tens of thousands of dead fish have washed up on the banks of a Mexican reservoir, amid allegations that a local firm contaminated the water."
- Biggest Dead Zone Ever Forecast in Gulf of Mexico—"Oxygen-deprived area may be size of New Jersey, scientists say." Incidentally, an oil platform there hasn't stopped leaking for 9 years.
