The Department of Heavy Surveillance (DHS) has a database that will enable it to investigate everyone in the US, all the time.

If we allow this to operate, it could make us safer from minor street crime, but it will surely make us more vulnerable to suppression of our human rights by the state.

Especially we should not allow systematic face recognition in public, by anyone including agents and agencies of the state, in the absence of specific court authorization.

Stiglitz: the Euro zone rules are causing great suffering in many countries, and Italy might be able to crack it up if it isn't reformed soon.

Deportation to a violent country which you knew only as a child is very dangerous.

To deport people for getting a traffic ticket reflects a policy that aims to cause suffering under whatever pretext. The authorities deny this, of course, but we will not make the mistake of believe them.

I criticize the article on one point: It asks us to sympathize more with Sr. Cano Pacheco because he had a child at the young age of 19. It is irresponsible to do that; people should not. To suggest that people would deserve less sympathy if they have helped stabilize the human population is unfair to us.

However, that is a side issue. The way the US treated him was wrong, child or no child.

The US returned nurse Anthonia Nwaorie's $41,000, which she was bringing to a clinic in Nigeria.

The bully said that Dictator Kim's systematic oppression of Koreans is nothing important.

I support negotiating peace with North Korea notwithstanding Kim's oppression, because war could do immense harm. If that requires the US to keep quiet about the issue of Kim's oppression for the time being, that can be worth while. But there is no need to make statements that it is not horrible.