Two Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine were tried and sentenced for "terrorism".

I don't know the details of this "terrorism" but I am skeptical about it. They might have committed a war crime, but I have no faith in Ukraine's courts to judge that question honestly. To trade them for Savchenko seems legitimate, but there was no need to try them to do that.

The Israeli soldier who killed Abed al-Fatah al-Sharif has been charged with manslaughter — a rather weak charge for what appears to be murder of an incapacitated man in cold blood.

It is peculiar that the Guardian obeys a foreign demand to conceal the name of the soldier, who has already been identified in Israel and world-wide.

Many Israelis celebrate that soldier as a hero for this murder, which is disgusting. I won't mention his name, because I don't think he deserves more fame, but it is in the article pointed to above.

Pakistan is in the process of passing a law for arbitrary censorship of the internet.

In the US: call on PEN America to stop working with the Israeli embassy.

Proposing tax disobedience by the non-rich to make governments stop letting the rich off the hook.