US citizens: Call on Obama to require federal contractors to disclose their political spending.

Everyone: call on Baltimore to fire housing chief Graziano, who looked he other way as his staff compelled women to have sex in exchange for legally mandated repair of their dwellings.

The disastrous results of the Arab Spring show that civil resistance can force out dictators but building democracy takes more.

In Tunisia I was told that the free software movement there was a big help, because people in it had learned how to work together effectively without having a boss to give them orders.

Vlad Kolesnikov protested Russia's conquest of Crimea by wearing a t-shirt. His community and his family ostracized him, and he committed suicide.

Turkey has arrested academics for signing a petition calling on Erdoğan to stop repression in Kurdish areas. Over a thousand signatories face possible prosecution for this.

Chomsky signed the same petition; in response Erdoğan invited him to visit Turkey. He refused. Apparently that refusal was very wise.