An article by one who joined the protest that stopped New York Thug Commissioner Kelly from speaking at Brown University.

The event celebrated repression, surveillance and attacks on democracy.

It deserved a protest. The information in the article suggests that some part of the university has sold itself to the forces of repression. I think a long-term campaign to change that is called for.

Despite that, I don't think that they should have prevented the speech from occurring, because that turns into censorship.

Hamburg has a plan to cope with the effects of global heating by helping people walk and bicycle around the city.

The complication of the servers in Obama's health care program reflects the wasteful complexity of the law, which results from Congress and Obama's unwillingness to set up a national health service.

The web site does not protect people's personal data from third parties.

Of course, it doesn't protect them from the state either. Although the US does not have the benefits of a national health service, its digital health records are quite easily available to the state.

A survey of panhandlers in San Francisco found that most of them get under $25 per day. Less than half take drugs or alcohol.

The US should be ashamed of doing so little for the poor that they need to do this.

Hamad al-Naqi will be sentenced to 10 years in prison in Kuwait for tweeting insults.

Making insult a crime is an injustice, whether it's in Kuwait, France, Ecuador or Britain.