The Tories' Digital Repression Bill proposes a ten-year prison term for sharing copies of almost anything, on or off the internet.

In an act of spectacular betrayal, the troll's recent deregulatory executive orders give Wall Street more power to cause an economic crisis. Wall Street wants the deregulation so as to cheat others, and likes economic crises too because they provide more opportunities to cheat others (for instance, the millions of fraudulent foreclosures that Obama forgave them for).

Uri Avnery: the boycott of products of Israeli colonies in Palestinian territory is wisest, because it can teach Israelis the importance of respecting the boundary between Israel and Palestine. I agree in principle, but I am starting to think that it will take sanctions on Israel to make the Israeli right wing stop establishing more colonies.

Terrorism Is Only a Real Threat If It Frightens Us into Destroying Our Liberties.

The imaginary "Bowling Green terrorist plot" was a plot concocted by the FBI to (in imagination) aid al Qa'ida in Iraq. If the plot had been real, it would have been wrongdoing, but it would have harmed no one in the US.