Fighting 'extremism' in Syria by supporting whoever its enemy is at the moment is not well thought out.

Large numbers of protesters, enraged by new limits on protests, battled thugs in Ukraine.

The anti-protest restrictions are interesting. The ban on amplifiers follows New York City, which restricted Occupy Wall Street the same way. The ban on masks is found in France and in many other places. These restrictions on protesters are antidemocratic no matter where they are found.

A group of multinational tech companies, probably including Google, are lobbying secretly to prevent the EU from taxing their earnings.

Centralized digital medical records risk privacy violations, but the UK's lax policy is turning "risk" to "ensure".

US citizens: sign 350.org's petition against the TPP.

350.org is against the treaty because it would obstruct efforts to avoid global heating disaster.