Here are five lessons I learned. I learned that: 1) Law is not to be trusted without interrogating its complicity with privilege and power. 2) Identity is morally problematic, especially if you get yourself born a white male of class privilege. 3) A nation that lets itself be governed by fear will become a poorly governed nation. 4) The arrogance of power contributes to its own demise when confronted by persistent resistance, and finally…. 5) I learned that the anger called hope can overcome despair, create a community of resistance and build a future that seemed impossible.

The Air Force explains the departure of these drone pilots in the simplest of terms. They are leaving because they are overworked. The pilots themselves say that it’s humiliating to be scorned by their Air Force colleagues as second-class citizens. Some have also come forward to claim that the horrors of war, seen up close on video screens, day in, day out, are inducing an unprecedented, long-distance version of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD).

Snowden's robot promises more revelations

Innocent-seeming information they get from you could give them the opportunity to convict you or your friends, and Assange, even if you had nothing to do with the leak and neither did they.

Across the world, authorities are wildly overreacting to the threat posed by online activism. History says it won’t work. Expect more Aaron Swartzs, Bradley Mannings and Kim Dotcomes in coming years.

via Swartz, Assange, Manning, Dotcom: overreaction to online activism | Crikey.

Justice for the PayPal WikiLeaks protesters: why DDoS is free speech | Jay Leiderman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.

Anonymous hacker \'Nerdo\' jailed for 18 months over attacks in support of Wikileaks - Telegraph.

KIM DOTCOM "MR PRESIDENT"

Anonymous cited Monsanto's business practices as "corrupt, unethical and downright evil." The hacking group also said in a press release it plans to go after companies Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands, Imperial Oil, the Royal Bank of Scotland "and many others" involved in development of Alberta's oil sands.