Shell gave up on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea, saying test wells did not find enough oil. Perhaps this is an excuse, a deniable way to yield to public pressure.

A wedding in Yemen has been bombed. The article does not say which country's planes did it, but it was some US ally.

In Iraq, the wedding was bombed by US planes.

The US government, when it can justify a warrant, has many ways to get the data from someone's computer. Even if we assume it only does good, and ignore its potential for bad, it can't possibly justify banning encryption.

Please don't call security-breaking "hacking". The right name for that is "cracking."

The UK government plans to make lawsuits over environmental damage so financially dangerous that people won't dare sue.

Expect US officials to start insulting Shaker Aamer in the media, to discredit what he says about how he and other prisoners in Guantanamo were tortured.

You may find my song parody, Guantanamero, pertinent in this context.