Another reason not to support Hilary Clinton for president (or anything): she parrots the Obama/NSA line about Snowden.

As we understand, that's a coded way of taking the spies' side against the public. According to them, the only legitimate response to government crimes is one that won't do any good. Clinton has made it clear that she will continue Obama's War on Whistleblowers.

Humanity has only one chance to avoid global heating disaster. We can't afford to fail this test. Fortunately there is a straightforward solution if only the fossil fuel lobbyists don't stop us.

The National Research Council concludes that the US is not prepared to cope with an oil spill from Arctic Ocean drilling.

Russia is systematically imposing control over all internet use.

The Russian-directed Ukrainian separatists captured a team of EU observers.

Simon Ostrovsky says they tortured him, and he saw several other civilian prisoners there.