Alfred McCoy's research led in 1972 to a book about US complicity with drug trafficking in Laos. The CIA tried to suppress the book, intimidated his informants, and tried to get him kicked out of Yale graduate school. His subsequent research found that US secret surveillance has been at the service of repression, of treason against democracy, for over a century. But it was never as pervasive and complete as today's digital surveillance.

US citizens: conscientious objectors must not be required to pay for substitutes.

US citizens: submit a comment in favor of network neutrality.

Here's the comment I filed. I avoided the terms "content" and "people of color."

The internet is a crucial medium for communication and each person's rights must be protected from commercial interference.

Just as telephone companies are not allowed to interfere about who we talk with by phone, ISPs must not be allowed to interfere about who we contact by internet.

Just as phone companies are not allowed to give out hints about who we talk with by phone, ISPs must not be allowed to give out hints about who we contact by internet.

ISPs must not be allowed to discriminate based on what we communicate over the internet. In the absence of a court order, they should not even be allowed to take notice of what it is (or enable anyone else to do so).

The first step is to avoid making things worse. Keep internet access under Title II.

North Korea is repeatedly asking for nuclear negotiations.

If the US won't accept the invitation, I hope South Korea will.

White supremacists put up no monuments to Virginia General Mahone, skilled general though he was, because after the war he rejected racism and led an integrated party that governed Virginia with integrity.

The purpose of the monuments was to promote the racist cause, and someone like Mahone wasn't useful.