A government whistleblower warns that the NSA grabs massive amounts of Americans' data, including email contents, by breaking into servers and communication links outside the US.

B'tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, explains why the homes of the families of Hamas members are not military targets, so bombing them is a war crime.

The UN also criticizes Israel's war crimes in Gaza.

Note the Israeli representative's bogus claim that those families are "human shields". That would only be true if the homes were legitimate military targets.

In addition to bombing hospitals, Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza's civil infrastructure such as water and sewage facilities.

In the village of Zanna, every house was damaged by Israeli attack.

Shooting the water tanks had no possible motive except to make civilians' lives miserable. People in Gaza can't afford to replace the water tanks; replacements may be impossible to obtain.

Perhaps Israel destroyed Zanna as preparation for declaring it a free-fire "buffer zone".

Jonathan Schell: how the US chose war, and declared its readiness to overthrow any government to impose plutocratic rule.

Moroccan women protested the prime minister who told them to stay home and not work.

Anti-abortion activists use bogus science to claim that medical abortions are dangerous, while pushing women into amateur abortions that really are dangerous.

I don't use the term "pro-choice" because it fails to defend abortion rights firmly. I also refuse to accept the term "pro-life" that opponents of abortion chose as a way to insult us.