On the great inequality and poverty in Brazil that motivates the protests.

This inequality and poverty occur despite strong programs to help the poor, which have reduced poverty in recent years. The US, by contrast, is getting worse under the plutocracy. I hope most Americans will put a stop to plutocracy before it makes them as poor as most Brazilians.

Moroccan thugs regularly convicts dissidents in occupied Western Sahara of crimes based on torturing confessions out of them.

Sometimes they forcibly push a man's hand against a fabricated statement to "sign" it.

Republicans want to require the NSF to fund only research that will have very important results.

This is ridiculous, since we can't tell in advance which lines of research will turn out to have very important results.

"Keep Calm and Carry On" is the proper response for terrorism, but not for plutocratic government. That calls for massive protests.

Unapproved genetically engineered wheat is probably present in small quantities in the US seed supply.

If wheat is not exposed to Roundup, this modified wheat would have no advantage over normal wheat, so it would probably propagate but not increase as a fraction of the total supply.