The Swiss government has adopted a policy of transparency about export of surveillance systems, showing exports to rather repressive governments such as Ethiopia.

US businesses have had direct ties to various kinds of slavery through history.

US citizens: call on Congress to tax Wall Street to support the real economy.

One American climbed to get a good job, through skill, hard work and luck (i.e., chance), then became unemployed (and therefore unemployable) when the luck ran out. So he says, don't look down on him for buying groceries with a government benefits card then driving away in his expensive car (until it gets repossessed).

His dim chances of getting another job, whether a good one or a bad one, reflect the lousy state of the real US economy for everyone but the rich, which in turn results from years of plutocratic policies on banking and taxation.

The US gave Mohamedou Slahi a "letter from his mother". It was a forgery.

He argues for Americans' right to know what the government does in our name in Guantanamo.

His main entertainment was the predictable bullshit of the interrogators.