US citizens: call on Congress to put a stop to social media monitoring for purposes of repressing protests.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Salafi Arabia wants to invest in promotion of its good name by sponsoring another form of football competition.

Don't forget the 1978 football world cup, with which the Argentine military dictatorship tried to use to distract from murderous tyranny.

90% of World's Children Are Breathing Toxic Air.

The particulate pollution causes permanent damage to their mental capacity. The fact that the plutocratic system refuses to act to fix this demonstrates its moral bankruptcy. However, fascists would not be any better — I expect they would rejoice that the public will be less intelligent 20 and 40 years from now, and easier for them to manipulate into supporting fascists.

Real democracy, even the imperfect democracy that we used to have, did a better job.

Right-wing bigots target George Soros as a stand-in for Jews in general. What they are doing is anti-semitism.

Now that anti-semitism is a real danger, in the US and other countries, with help from the bigot in chief, let's make sure not to confuse the issue by mixing it up with support for the human rights of Palestinians.

What the bigot in chief practices is "stochastic terrorism": stirring up others to commit terrorism against randomly chosen members of groups he demonizes.

The hate groups in which people speak in favor of violence, in a way that will sooner or later bring about real violence, can be described as "collective incitement to stochastic violence."

Perhaps this can lead to a good criterion for judging the proper boundaries of freedom of speech, which have never included incitement to violence.