Challenging the NSA to say how many Americans it snoops on as collateral damage.

In 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, a US nuclear missile team received erroneous orders to launch. The commander of that team saw something fishy and verified they were sent by mistake, thus averting a nuclear war.

There have been many other near escapes, including that of the bombs that could easily have detonated when they fell over the US.

We can't rely on lucking out every time, so we can't regard the current nuclear deterrent situation as safe.

The US could deal with its national debt by making a few trillion-dollar platinum coins.

If the US expanded its money supply too far, whether this way or via debt as it currently does, eventually that would cause high inflation. But there is a substantial way to go before that happens.

UK thugs seized the laptop of a BBC journalist who was interviewing people in PISSI.

A refugee in Australia hanged himself because he feared being deported.