Artists protesting against surveillance still naively presume that it is possible to flood the NSA with so much data that it will not provide effective surveillance.

That would have been true 20 years ago. Nowadays the NSA can easily have computers find the interesting bits and discard the rest.

US citizens: oppose "Republibama" government.

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US citizens: tell your senators to vote against the Keystone XL pipeline.

Books that have been banned in the Guantanamo prison.

Detroit's bankruptcy plan demands the highest sacrifice from workers and residents. Rich creditors had to do much less.

It is another example of the general practice of crushing the non-rich. When they become desperate and act accordingly, the rich can demonize them as "scroungers" so as to justify crushing them further.