The surveillance state, faced with inevitable unrest because of the increasing poverty it encourages combined with the effects of global heating, will almost inevitably become a terror state.

A Sustainable Energy Future is Within Our Grasp.

However, governments that kowtow to fossil fuel interests won't grasp it.

President Erdogan accused a reporter of treason for covering the protests in Turkey.

I wonder if examples of similar claims from the US against journalists such as Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald encouraged him to think he can get away with this.

Foreign protesters released from prisoned in Tunisia describe the horrible conditions of the prison there.

Their apology deserved to be withdrawn, since it endorsed the idea that their protest was wrong. However, it was bad that they apologized for it at all. I understand how this might have required a sacrifice they could not make, but it still would have been better to refuse.

George Orwell's birthday was celebrated in Utrecht by putting party hats on the surveillance cameras.