Obama is launching a last-ditch push to impose the TPP on the US during the lame duck session, and Clinton has not yet come out against it.

Obama said to think of Clinton as four more years of him. I fear it is true. So do many others.

Indonesia has started persecution of gays.

There is a broad Indonesian tradition of cross-dressing, somewhat different from the US tradition, and it was surprisingly well accepted. I speculate that we are seeing the influence of the repressive preachers funded there by Salafi Arabia.

Freeing enslaved fishermen on boats that dock in South Africa.

"Trafficked" seems like the wrong word. It is not synonymous with "enslaved".

Indian journalists face prosecution over an article accusing a Hindu nationalist group of "trafficking" tribal children to indoctrinate them.

There is something fishy about that terminology, but this might be a matter of kidnapping; that been done to indigenous peoples in many parts of the world.

The law the journalists are being prosecuted under is patently dangerous.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is having a retreat. Protesters booked hotel rooms in the same hotel, and the hotel cancelled them all arbitrarily.

This is manifestly corrupt.