The Committee to Protect Journalists rebuked the Obama regime again for its harassment and prosecution of journalists.

The spying-industrial complex: 5 companies that get contracts from US intelligence agencies and continually exaggerate the danger of terrorism.

Terrorists do exist, but the threat they pose to Americans is minute compared with the danger of cars, smoking, and the plutocratic regime that leaves tens of millions of Americans with no health care except the emergency room.

Terrorism hype is striking Australia too, and being used as the excuse to attack civil liberties there.

Obama says administrative measures will close the "tax inversion" loophole.

It will be good to shut it this way, but that ought to be firmed up in law.

The US started air strikes against ISIS in Syria, including in the city of Raqaa, with cooperation from Jordan.

An announcement on CNN said, "A military official said the strikes are meant to target the ability of the terror group to command and control, resupply and train." There is nothing wrong with those goals in principle, but this means the attacks are not against troops in the field — and therefore are likely to kill civilians.

If the people living in Raqaa resent ISIS and wish they could kick ISIS out, they will welcome these attacks; if some of them are killed, they will consider that a necessary evil and blame ISIS. But if they don't resent ISIS, they will blame the US for those deaths, and give ISIS more support.

Google has broken with ALEC.

Being willing to work with ALEC even over some other issue suggests a moral blindness.