Bosnia-Herzegovina needs to escape from the nationalist fragmentation that the peace arrangements of the 1990s have left it in.

Chomsky, Snowden, Greenwald on Privacy in the Age of Surveillance. Snowden's remarks, as quoted here, seem to consider an omniscient state as a reasonable option, and objects only to failing to ask the public for consent. As I've shown in http://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html, an omniscient state means no democracy.

Before the CIA handed prisoners to other countries that were considered likely to torture them, the CIA took nude photos of them to serve as proof that the torture wasn't done by the CIA itself. Why it should matter whether the CIA maimed someone directly or through an subcontracted government is beyond me. Either way, the US is culpable.

Microsoft and some other large companies decry North Carolina's new pro-discrimination law, but their repeated donations to Republicans are the cause of it.

Israel has backed down on trying to make Brazil accept a prominent anti-peace politician as ambassador. Netanhayu now plans to use him to foist a similar gesture of fealty on the US.