Background to the Dan River ash spill: business-subservient Republicans ordered the water pollution inspectors to think of businesses as their "customers".

Plutocratist politicians (mostly Republicans, but Democrats do it too) aim to abolish "job-killing" regulations so as to open the door to people-killing pollution.

Exploring for oil in the US Atlantic coast would injure and kill marine mammals including endangered whales.

Burning the oil would endanger most species on Earth.

The US Congress seems likely to legislate permission to unlock a portable phone from a phone company — but only until 2015.

The ban on unlocking portable phones is one specific case of a broad injustice: the DMCA's prohibition on breaking digital handcuffs of any kind, and on distributing software or hardware that can do so. The obsession with this tiny part of the injustice has distracted people from the rest. Instead of banning people from breaking digital restrictions management (DRM), we should ban DRM.

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The US government's sleazy dealings with John Kiriakou about his treatment in prison have convinced him he is a political prisoner.

Even a hero can be slow to catch on to some things ;-).

State subsidies to movie companies screw the public to the tune of almost 2 billion dollars a year.

The general practice of giving business tax cuts to win business away from other cities, states or countries makes different regions compete to kowtow to business. It is nothing but dooH niboR, and every company that asks for this should be told to jump in the lake.