US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose CISA.

We have to fight hard now, because Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and Symantec just endorsed the bill.

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

Canada's prime minister admitted that, in the TPP, he's working for auto parts companies. He also implied he would accept a bad deal for Canada in order to serve them.

The criticism of Harper concedes too much to the TPP. It endorses the mistaken idea that the TPP is a trade deal, and that Canada ought to try to negotiate a "good deal". The TPP is a corporate supremacy treaty, and its whole purpose is to benefit companies at the expense of democracy. Instead of getting distracted with details, Canada should pull out.

James Roux went to a "remembrance ceremony" for the Sep 2001 attacks because his father was killed in them. When he found a "program of military force", he protested. Thugs arrested him and framed him (as usual for thugs), and right-wing media lied about him.

After each random blip in killings of US thugs, they claim it is a "war on cops".

One advantage of a national health service is that it can push down the price of medicines. But this is not working as well as it used to in the UK.