Exxon bullied the major US TV networks into refusing to present a paid political advertisement that criticizes Exxon.

All I can say is, Yexx!

If you want to watch the PSA, which is hosted on YouTube, please do not access the site directly! Use youtube-dl.

The UK government has come up with two new excuses to maintain surveillance of everyone.

What they amount to is, "If we can't watch everyone all the time, somewhat more crimes will happen." That's true. But if we allow the state to prevent crimes at any cost, it will oppress us. A state that the people do not control is a bigger danger than the crimes it fails to prevent.

The state itself commits frequent violence when it shows contempt for the people.

US TV lionizes the CEO of Hewlett Packard for continuing to cut jobs despite the "economic recovery" in the US (thus helping insure it's not a real recovery for the American people).

One incidental detail, irrelevant to the issue, is that this CEO is a woman. It's irrelevant to the issue because a male CEO could have done the same, and it would be equally wrong. The wrong here has nothing to do with her gender. It was right of FAIR not to mention that.

I mention it, though it is irrelevant to this issue, because there are feminists who campaign to have more female CEOs. I think they are being distracted by an irrelevancy.

With regard to CEOs, what matters most for working women isn't whether their chance of becoming one of those CEOs is one in a million or one in ten million. It is curbing the CEOs' power to harm them. Never mind how women CEOs get paid; focus on how women workers get paid.

The owners of Hobby Lobby provided medical care including contraception coverage, voluntarily, until a group of right-wing Christians suggested this was a way to the secularity of the law.

Now Hobby Lobby demands to ban insurance from paying for doctor visits in which patients even discuss contraception. And the Supreme Court may have given it to them.

The battle over contraception is the central battle of the war for women's equality and emancipation.

Exxon bullied the major US TV networks into refusing to present a paid political advertisement that criticizes Exxon.

All I can say is, Yexx!

If you want to watch the PSA, which is hosted on YouTube, please do not access the site directly! Use youtube-dl.