The US Government Investigated Journalists 14 Times During 2014.

Former employees of Kaspersky say that the company sabotaged competitors by tricking them into recognizing normal files as viruses.

All these companies were making proprietary software, which is unethical in itself; I can't consider any of them an innocent victim. Microsoft, in particular, commits sabotage against its users.

That doesn't make it ok to do what Kaspersky is accused of doing.

In 2009, the question was whether Obama and Holder would prosecute the Bush regime officials that tortured around 100 prisoners to death.

Now we know the answer: no, they wouldn't. These murders are still a blot on the honor of the United States, and will remain so until those guilty (from Bush and Cheney on down) are punished. If the US won't do it, the UN should.

It is noteworthy that, in Japan, even artists' and authors' associations oppose the stricter copyright that the TPP would impose.

This is noteworthy, but it's not crucial. It is a fundamental mistake to think that the views or interests of an artist should carry more weight in copyright issues that the views or interests of anyone else!

The purpose of copyright is to benefit the public, by influencing artists to make more works. But copyright also restricts and thus harms the public. It is up to the public to decide how much copyright price is worth paying to get more works.

Tariq Ba Odah is badly ill after years of hunger striking. The US government has already decided there is no reason to keep him in prison; but it opposes his court motion to be freed, out of sheer perverse orneriness. The US defines hunger striking as a form of war, and the prisoner's release as a defeat.

I have a hunch that the US military defines Guantanamo prisoners' habias corpus motions as a kind of war, too. And any other human rights, when they get in the military's way.