The war in Ukraine has quieted down since August; the cease-fire has held. It is no longer serves Putin's purposes to heat it up.

A total of 9,000 deaths are estimated.

Ramie Abounaja displayed a Palestinian flag from his dorm window, so George Washington University sent a thug to make him take it down, then made some unclear disciplinary accusation against him.

It is formally prohibited to hang flags from a window, but students that hang other flags never get bothered.

Librarians and privacy advocates oppose CISA together.

Activists protested at the Louvre against its acceptance of sponsorship from an oil company.

Isn't it cute how the oil company sums up plutocratic rule: "In recent years, the relationship between business and society has changed."

Protests like this are very important for turning fossil fuel companies into the pariahs they deserve to be. Having dealings with those companies should make a person or organization the object of general scorn. This is necessary because it will reduce their plutocratic power to block necessary action to avoid disaster.

The FBI director has returned to demanding an end to encryption that really works.

Imagine if someone like Trump becomes president and starts using the US spy apparatus to find and imprison scapegoats.