The Senate is moving to expand massive surveillance by "allowing" companies to give any amount of personal data to the US government "voluntarily".

We can imagine that the government has ways to make them volunteer.

Seattle protesters hope to block Shell's Arctic drilling this year by preventing its drilling rigs from setting out until the season has been missed.

Protesters suggest a "safety zone" around Earth, and that Shell should go wreck Venus instead. Venus is so hot because it has a runaway greenhouse effect; perhaps Shell has already wrecked it.

The US State Department, when it was headed by Clinton, appears to have aided the coup in Honduras. That makes it likely she personally approved it.

Thatcher's pro-business policies, deregulation for business and tax cuts for the rich, did not cause economic growth.

But they certainly transferred wealth from the nonrich to the rich.

A Turkish thug has been sentenced for teargassing a peaceful protester in Gezi Park: he will have to plant trees, then tend them for 6 months.