uganda American tourist and Ugandan guide kidnapped by gunmen at popular safari park Carla Sinclair

crimes Woman escapes kidnapper by leaping out of the trunk of his moving car Rob Beschizza

survival My 977 days held hostage by Somali pirates: journalist Michael Scott Moore Mark Frauenfelder

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

World Mental Health Day It’s World Mental Health Day: A primer on depression for the public-at-large Maureen Herman

surveillance Hong Kong's #612strike protest movement: a million strong, leaderless, wireless and smart as hell Cory Doctorow

authoritarianism The latest popular uprising in Hong Kong is fighting to keep Beijing from dragging dissidents to mainland China Cory Doctorow

class war Terror as disappearances follow Chinese student communists' solidarity with striking workers Cory Doctorow

News Mexico: 166 human skulls found in Veracruz clandestine mass grave Xeni Jardin

happy mutants His Dream of Skyland, a mysterious and touching journey through opium-drenched colonial Hong Kong Cory Doctorow

medicine Médecins Sans Frontières is on the front lines of the Mexican drug war Seamus Bellamy

News Nicaragua: Ortega blames civilian murders he ordered on a 'coup-mongering satanic sect' (he's lying) Seamus Bellamy

surveillance Uganda's unenforceable social media tax is augmented by a biometric requirement for SIM card purchases Cory Doctorow

Business Chinese cops treat kidnapping as a routine form of largely acceptable debt-collection Cory Doctorow

surveillance China orders mobile app stores to remove VPN apps Cory Doctorow

happy mutants New York 2140: Kim Stanley Robinson dreams vivid about weathering climate crisis Cory Doctorow

Business How Lloyds of London solved the precarious market for kidnapping ransoms Cory Doctorow

corruption Massive report details the surveillance powers of 12 Central and South American nations Cory Doctorow

books Negative Publicity: a book of paraphernalia from state kidnappings Cory Doctorow

politics "Stranger Danger" to children vastly overstated Glenn Fleishman