In Haiti, the US-imposed president Martelly has effectively eliminated democracy. He has not even tried to hold elections.

US states are cutting funds for pre-school which is crucial for students raised in poverty to catch up with the better off.

Meanwhile, privatized "public schools" divert money to profits and executives, and can't be converted back into real public schools.

The rich in the US are no longer interested in an educated work force. They consider a large fraction of Americans impoverished.

It seems that $500 can permanently lift a person in Bangladesh out of ultra-poverty.

Egyptian Atheist Karim Ashraf Mohamed al-Banna has been sentenced to three years in prison for saying he is an Atheist.

A statement advocating censorship was censored on Facebook. I suspect the statement was deleted because of the appearance of the word "nigger" — ironically, to condemn the use of that word. That's what tends to happen when censorship is carried out by idiots.

That writer deserves freedom to present his views, ironically for the same reason that his views are wrong.

People never want to censor what they agree with. Respect for freedom of speech means, at heart, respecting the freedom to say what we disagree with. We must respect the freedom to call blacks "niggers", or praise Hitler, even though we disagree and disapprove. We must also respect the freedom to advocate censorship, precisely because otherwise we ourselves endorse censorship.