Right-wing UK policies have made it impossible to buy a home in London if you're not rich, and hard to rent one either.

Allowing people to buy their apartments in public housing was a fundamental mistake, unless the state was going to build more public housing apartments as fast as they were sold.

The Muslim Brotherhood's supporters held a large rally in Cairo, and soldiers shot at them.

Elsewhere in Cairo, Secularists and Islamists fought, and someone started shooting. Perhaps that was the army too.

Rebooting democracy with new elections might be the best thing under the circumstances; repressing the Muslim Brotherhood would make it much worse. Excluding them from democracy for a substantial time would be oppression; however, what they do when they get power is also oppression. It is hard to choose between them.

One article suggests this might convince Islamists around the world to give up on seeking power through democracy, and use violence instead.

This might occur, but what they do when they gain power includes violence too.

The second article suggests a stratagem that might have avoided both of the repressive outcomes. I don't know enough to judge whether it would work.

Saudi activists face jail for taking food to woman whose husband left her effectively locked in the house without enough food or money to get it.

Commentary on Morsi's ouster.

Shamai Leibowitz was convicted of espionage for telling the public about FBI crimes. He believes that Obama punished him in an attempt to teach whistleblowers a lesson — and thinks that Snowden learned useful lessons from it (though not the ones Obama had in mind).

Leibowitz cites "the obligation to our consciences and basic human rights" as the justification for doing his duty despite laws against it, but he could also cite the US Constitution.