In Cleveland, security has completely vanquished protest. Most people have been intimidated into staying away from protests.

This does not augur well for democracy.

Trump's Big Lie campaign now accuses Bill Clinton of rape. The Trump supporters figure that if they say it enough times, it will pass as truth.

What Bill Clinton did to the poor people and working people of the US adds up to a lot more wrong than one rape.

The German Social Democratic Party calls for reforming the European Union to make it democratic.

Google shut down an artist's blog, which had been going for 14 years, denying the artist access to his own work.

In Saint Anthony Village, where thugs killed Philando Castile, almost half the arrests are of blacks. Blacks amount to under 7% of the population.