Outrage Makes You Feel Good, But Doesn't Change Minds.

Russia has censored the web to block calls for anti-corruption protests.

The Russian state considers corruption a vital industry and protects it at the expense of human rights.

UK welfare cuts will "will push a quarter of a million children into poverty". For Tories, that's considered a step forward.

It will also be a disaster for people whose relatives die. One man with cancer needs to die by Wednesday or his family will lose around $60,000 over a period of time.

Jewish Voice for Peace posted a smear article that was published by the Israeli government.

Here's what JVP has to say about it.

Here's the smear itself.

Reading between the lines, we can see the usual Israeli practice of saying its critics are "anti-semitic" (or even criminal), when really what they are doing is criticizing Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Some are condemned for participating a Palestinian human rights lawyers' group, Al Haq. Ms Wilkommerson was arrested for trespassing in office of the Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces. By any chance, was her presence there a nonviolent protest?

One point that is true is that various US states have passed laws against any sort of boycott of Israel, even the boycott I support of products made in Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory.

Israel has given up on convincing American Jews to support the occupation, and now seeks rather to repress whoever wishes to oppose it.

Corporations Use End User License Agreements to Create a Parallel Legal System.

EULAs should be denied legal validity. More precisely, any contract that companies say you agree to in order to use a product you have bought should be automatically void.

Don't assume people can't live without accepting EULAs. I have never accepted one — anything that has an EULA, I refuse to use. You can, too!