Why We Positively, Absolutely, Can't Trust the Government with Encryption.

As Tariq Ba Odah wastes away in Guantanamo, the US government denies him rights he is entitled to either as a military prisoner or as an arrested person.

A few dozen prisoners in Guantanamo may have committed real crimes. There are a few handfuls who might fight against the US if released — but given the thousands of jihadis now fighting for PISSI, these few would change nothing. Some of them might find PISSI so barbarous (by the standards of the jihadis of 2000) that they fight against it.

It would be better to release all the prisoners in Guantanamo immediately, than to undermine everyone's human rights and the rule of law by continuing to holding them without a fair trial.

I have no objections to holding some to prosecute them in a proper court, where there are grounds to do so.

Yazidi women have formed a militia to fight PISSI(*).

I suggested arming PISSI's escaped female captives. The US didn't, but the Revolutionary Kurds did. The US doesn't help the Kurds because it is more interested in being nice to Erdoğan and the sectarian Iraqi state than in defeating PISSI.

* PISSI: Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

The study that found that children of holocaust survivors inherited evidence of stress was too small and not well designed. It may be invalid.

Parts of the Tunisian state are blocking investigation of crimes of the old regime.

This is perhaps because the new president comes from a group linked to the old regime. I fear it is taking advantage of terrorist attacks to permanently clamp down on human rights.