Some US hospitals are buying personal data to warn people they might get sick.

I see no harm in this particular practice. If it seems creepy, that's because it is the consequence of something that really is creepy: the collection of all that data about people. That's what's really wrong.

I would not mind if my own computer kept a log of my purchases. I might find it useful to run a free program to look through them for things to warn me about. I don't want a data broker to have that data, which is why I always buy anonymously, paying cash.

Capitalism is having a recovery for the rich, but making this benefit the non-rich requires changing the system.

Ralph Nader asks Americans to support two progressive candidates for US Congress, one independent and one Green.

The World Bank is considering relaxing standards for loans to large projects that can involve fossil fuels or other dangers to the public.

Australia has admitted handing over boat people from Sri Lanka to the Sri Lankan navy.

Sri Lanka will hand them over to the thugs, and they may be prosecuted for departing Sri Lanka without permission.

Australia's high court ordered the state not to hand over another boatload.