US citizens: call your senators and suggest cutting off funding to the Department of Harshness and Sadism.

Even Canadians can be harassed trying to enter Canada because they are included in a secret US blacklist, referred to as "Tuscan". US officials can add names based on vague, confused suspicions, and neither the US nor Canada will tell you that you are on the list, nor how to try to be removed.

A Canadian "public consultation on national security" reviewed the policy for the officially acknowledged no-fly list but didn't mention this second, unofficial no-fly list. That means it was a phony consultation. However, mere "transparency" and some sort of stated policy is not enough to justify punishment without trial.

Stopping a person from flying, nowadays, is a grave punishment. It is an injustice to impose such a punishment other than as the result of conviction for a serious crime.

Against Privacy Defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting.

IceCat has many features to reduce fingerprinting.

Craig Murray: hampering Parliament's investigation into the UK's collaboration in torture was the latest in a series of coverup measures.

Nonetheless, the investigation revealed something about the true scale of the problem — even Murray was surprised.

Canada has chosen retaliatory tariffs to attack states which support the bully.