Jo Beecham is dying of cancer, but has gone to great lengths to prepare to commit suicide without help rather than be helplessly subject to a medical system that will refuse to let her escape short of death.

Obama is trying to use the "state secrets" privilege to quash the case of a man who is suing to get off the "no fly" list.

The "no fly" list is punishment without trial, obviously unconstitutional, but we can't count on the pro-authoritarian US Supreme Court to care about this.

"Natural" disasters happen 5 times as often as they did in the 1970s, because now they are mainly artificial.

Protesters from a march in Paris, condemning Israel's bombing of Gaza, tried to attack a synagogue.

The people in the synagogue are not the ones launching the attack. They may not even support it. The standard Israeli way of dismissing all criticism of its occupation policies is to call it "antisemitism". Apparently these protesters really are antisemitic, but their bad example will help Israel label all of us as "antisemitic".

There is a substantial amount of antisemitism in France among the right wing.

Drones are in use for private spying on behalf of idiotically jealous spouses.

On occasion, these uses achieve a positive result, but I don't think they should be permitted loosely.