The Obama regime is trying to forbid journalist Barrett Brown (and his lawyers) from talking to the media.

Brown's charges mainly have to do with posting a link to a web page where data obtained from Stratfor had been posted by others.

He also posted a page of violent threats against a US agent who was hounding him. Brown he seems to be guilty on this one point, so I cannot claim he has done nothing wrong. However, the other charges raise a more important issue — Obama, as usual, is attacking freedom of the press.

Even if they gag Barrett Brown, others including me will continue informing Americans about the injustice of this case, and that Obama is the enemy of journalism and democracy in the US.

Later: the gag order was issued.

We can make the US government regret this by talking about the case even more.

US citizens: Support government measures to limit "for-profit colleges" from driving students into debt.

Obama is proposing a larger intervention in Syria to win Republican support.

I would support intervention to topple Assad if his likely replacement were not Islamists.

Global heating is predicted to change rainfall in Brazil and damage agriculture.

In 2009, Sri Lanka's forces killed perhaps 70,000 Tamil civilians; then they massacred captured rebels. The government is stepping up the repression of Tamils and dissidents.

The article mentions the assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge, whose posthumous last editorial accused the state of killing him.