Debate: Was Snowden Justified? Former NSA Counsel Stewart Baker vs. Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg.

Everyone: call on Monsanto to stop selling its wildlife-destroying pesticide, Roundup.

Sousveillance in a competitive situation can become, in effect, a form of nearly obligatory self-implemented surveillance.

University students in Venezuela have been protesting for days against Maduro's government, and a leader of the opposition has been accused of terrorism.

Several other South American countries condemned the protesters' violence.

I can well believe that US diplomats are plotting to overthrow the government of Venezuela. The US supported the coup attempt a decade ago. However, the shortages, caused by price controls, and other real grievances are stimulating real opposition.

Accusing protesters of "terrorism" is wrong in Venezuela just as it's wrong in the US or Russia or Egypt.

Over a million EU citizens have filed an initiative petition against water privatization.

The legal effect of the initiative is only to direct the European Union to consider the issue. We will have to see whether this has more influence than a petition on whitehouse.gov.