A former Guantanamo military court prosecutor says that the military courts are a failure — those prisoners who have charges against them should be tried in ordinary federal courts.

Amen.

Those that have no charge to try should be released.

Businesses and Obama agree on a bill to expand NSA surveillance by letting companies "voluntarily" give data to the government.

It is more reason not to identify yourself or your activities to any American company. However, for some purposes it is hard to avoid that.

Research has associated various kinds of air pollution with increased vulnerability to the flu, increased vulnerability to allergies, and with brain damage.

The Tories plan to force UK ISPs to block access to sites that have porn and don't strictly identify their users.

This won't achieve the supposed goal of stopping teenagers from accessing porn. They will find other ways, perhaps via friends that are over 18. However, the attack on internet freedom could be successful anyway.

The fossil fuel companies owe the public so much, for undeserved subsidies and for damages, that it justifies nationalizing them.

Then the state could order them to stop lobbying against curbing global heating.