Accusing Venezuela's president Maduro of becoming a dictator.

It seems pretty much true to me. Chavez held real elections, and really won them. Maduro doesn't do that.

While it is true that Chavez started some of the policies that are today causing economic problems, he did so to correct other economic problems (poor people had trouble buying necessities of life). I think he would have corrected the details of those policies if they had caused big problems while he was president.

Replacing printed newspapers with digital distribution turns out to make censorship easier.

For a while it was the opposite, but that was before states began trying in earnest to censor.

Disinformation, Not Fake News, Got Trump Elected, and It Won't Go Away.

US citizens: support Keith Ellison for chair of the Democratic National Committee.

Israel calls Shuafat refugee camp a part of Jerusalem, but it is surrounded by walls and some residents are in effect imprisoned by them.

They have to pay taxes for city services that they never get. Israeli thugs enter only to arrest people or demolish buildings. Aside from that, they protect the drug dealers that operate near a checkpoint in the walls.

Residents estimate that 1/3 of the people are addicts of this drug, which leads some of its users to suicidally attack Israelis with knives. This gives Israeli thugs an excuse for illegal collective punishment: blowing up the family's house.