Al-Jazeera journalist Abdullah Elshamy has been on hunger strike for 100 days in an Egyptian prison. He has been held without charges for most of a year.

Cecily McMillan was convicted of attacking the thug who groped her.

The fact that the same thug attacked several other protesters was suppressed. I doubt any witnesses were allowed to testify about the general predilection of thugs to lie in court.

Arguing for a federal Ukraine, in a hurry.

The Post-Constitutional Era: now that the US government can imprison anyone based on handwaving, nobody really has any rights.

Militarization of "policing" is supposed to "protect" us, but it is the visible face of a government that serves the plutocrats.