Qin Yongmin has been an activist for democracy for decades. China has sentenced him to 13 years for "subversion".

US officials separated a baby from its father over a year ago, considering them unauthorized immigrants. They now cannot find the father.

On the ethics of personal protests against the bully's servants.

We need to be mindful of the line between criticism and harassment. Those who carry out the bully's cruelty deserve criticism, but if we legitimize harassment of them, what will we say when they pay people to harass us?

A new pipeline to carry natural gas from Russia to Europe would make Europe dangerously dependent on Russia.

It would also mean that Europe misses a great opportunity to invest greatly in renewable energy, and thus help protect civilization from a much greater menace than a shortage of fossil fuels.

"Finlandization" refers to the legal impositions through which the Soviet Union restricted the press, the schools, and culture in Finland after World War II.

The US does not do this directly to other countries, but global plutocracy does something comparable.