Many governments are "reforming" education but hardly ever do they determine whether the reforms made education better.

The US claims to have obtained proof that North Korea carried out the Sony crack, through espionage on computer networks.

It could be true, but I do not have implicit confidence in the US government.

I don't object when the NSA spies on hostile governments such as North Korea, or even China. That is its legitimate purpose. What I object to is when it spies on everyone including you and me.

The richest 80 people in the world own half the world's wealth.

Just 5 years ago, it took over 300 rich people to encompass half the world's wealth. Inequality is increasing, which is an injustice.

By 2016, the richest 1% will own more than all the rest of the world.

New York State's ban on fracking is based on numerous studies tying it to harm to human health.

To prevent global heating disaster, we must leave 80% of the known fossil fuel reserves in the ground. Clearly the most dangerous reserves should be the first on the list not to be extracted. That includes anything that would be obtained by fracking, strip mining (including tar sands) or undersea drilling.

In Iran, a newspaper was shut down for publishing a statement "I am Charlie".

Meanwhile, in France, other sorts of statements have been censored.

Censoring political views is wrong regardless of which views are censored.