Omar al-Bashir, tyrant of Sudan, keeps on having his thugs kill students.

A well-meaning "local currency" project seems to have total surveillance as a byproduct.

I can't understand how people who presumably do not like massive surveillance can set this issue completely aside when they judge projects and products that track people. If we want to continue having democracy, we must build systems that surveil less.

I was disgusted to see today that the only way to pay for street parking in Paris (at least on the street where I am staying) is with some sort of credit card. That tracks people's movements. Even if the card is not associated with any person, the system will record that the same person paid for parking in a series of places. This is creeping total surveillance, and we must hate every single step in this campaign against our rights.

The UK Labour Party refused to sell McDonalds a booth at the party conference, because McDonalds persistently refuses to negotiate with workers that are trying to form a union.

I would say "Bravo!" except that this shouldn't be seen as exceptional. It should be a "no brainer". The fact that it isn't so seen, that some even question it, is a measure of how far New Labour took it into supporting plutocracy. I am glad to see it reinvigorated.

The plutocratist Labour Party, like the Clinton-Obama wing of the Democratic Party, won't try to do anything more than slow the surrender to the rich.

Tony B'liar's staff were warned in 2001 by the head of counterterrorism in MI6 that Dubya's plans to invade Iraq would inspire terrorists.

Either he ignored this, and was incompetent, or he secretly welcomed the opportunity this would offer him to look tough by attacking Britons' freedom, and was a traitor.

A lawsuit in Chile aims to ban the use of surveillance balloons that track everybody everywhere on the street.