US citizens: Phone your congresscritter and say, don't move Guantanamo prison to the US. Each prisoner should be tried in a civilian US court, or freed.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

US citizens: phone your senators to oppose Obama's nomination of Robert Califf to head the Food and Drug Administration.

He is too much in bed with the pharma companies to regulate them properly, and we must suspect he wouldn't want to try.

US citizens: ask congresscritters to sign the Ellison-Yarmuth-Dingell letter calling for a political resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Pollution in Ogoniland is just as bad now as it was 20 years ago when Nigeria executed protest leaders.

Blaming inequality and massive surveillance on digital technology is a handy excuse for politicians that want to increase inequality and surveillance.