PISSI supporters have taken over parts of Libya and plan to kill Egyptian Christians that they captured.

If it is not limited to Iraq and Syria, I suppose we must now call it PIS, the pseudo-Islamic state.

What Hollywood wants from the TPP is the power to put Americans in prison for sharing.

Uri Avnery: casino mogul Sheldon Adelson commands Netanyahu as well as US Republicans; he is behind Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress.

The newly approved GM apple is designed not to turn brown when it gets old. That way, stores selling precut apples can hold on to them for days and you won't be able to tell.

Other possible dangers of the GM apple.

SWAT teams, which consist of thugs that are effectively soldiers, carry out 50,000 raids a year in the US. Nearly all of them are unnecessary. A retired thug chief suggests how to demilitarize the thugs.

That won't make America safe from thugs — thugs without military weapons kill plenty of Americans — but it is an important reduction in the danger.