Pretending a Name Is Still Secret — in the Name of the Cult of Secrecy.

In Thailand, anti-government mass rallies have started fighting with mass groups of government supporters.

The anti-government crowds have seized various government buildings, one after another.

France has copied Sweden's harmful policy of punishing the clients of prostitutes.

I am not surprised that this law repression prostitution, but that is no help to those who choose (or might have chosen) to become prostitutes. It could discourage human trafficking that forces people to become prostitutes, but there are other ways to do that: (1) interviewing possibly trafficked immigrants in private in their own languages as they enter the country, (2) giving them advice on how to get help if they find they have been enslaved, and (3) visiting them once or twice a year for a private conversation to ask and check whether they have been enslaved.

Xiomara Castro accused election fraud in Honduras, which seems plausible given that 30% of the registered voters were invalid and that the difference between her percentage and the establishment candidate's percentage was less than 30%.

What did the exit polls say?

Repression of pro-EU protesters in Ukraine mobilized 100,000 of them.

The background for the protests in Ukraine.