Massive resistance to tar sands oil has done tremendous harm to the oil extraction companies' profits.

Why do thugs want armored vehicles? To intimidate people who are not even accused of a crime.

The US government estimates that only 20 or 30 Americans have gone to Syria to fight for various anti-Assad groups, and only some of them are in PISSI.

Such a small number are insignificant, thus no reason for any change in laws or any denial of Americans' human rights.

Peter Young gets harassed by the Theater of Security Agency every time he flies, because he has been convicted of a "terrorist" crime.

His "terrorism" consisted of freeing minks from farms. Labeling this as "terrorism" was the first step in the distortion of that term by the US.

I wish this were a mere bureaucratic mistake, but it something much worse: obstinacy for obstinacy's sake, on the part of bureaucrats who think that obstinacy for obstinacy's sake is what the public deserves.

Social Security figures show that US workers are getting worse off, making the US like a third-world country.

Not coincidentally, the number of billionaires in the world has doubled in recent years.