US citizens: sign this petition calling on Obama to support reform of the ECPA to require the government to get a warrant to examine people's email.

This is a fairly small change: under current law, the warrant is needed for recent emails (those that arrived in the last 6 months), but not needed for emails that have remained for longer.

The methods now being developed to obstruct access to "child" pornography will enable blocking anything in the future, such as perhaps the revelations of the next Snowden.

Uruguayan President Asks for World to Support His Marijuana Legalization Plan.

States should withdraw from that 1961 UN treaty.

The former head of Israel's secret service said that the biggest threat to Israel's security is its refusal to make peace with Palestine.

Sussex University sparked strong student resistance by suspending 5 students, including some who participated in an occupation protest, and at least one who didn't participate.

Note the standard bullshit statement from the university administration saying that it has to do this to protect "students, staff and visitors" from disruption or (in their imagination only) worse.

This is part of a broader pattern of students' campaigning for decent treatment of workers, and increased repression by the state which advocates bad treatment of workers.