An NSA whistleblower says that the only way to do sufficient oversight is to appoint a team that can investigate anything the NSA does.

10 NSA Myths Debunked.

"Freedom Industries", the company responsible for the toxic spill in West Virginia, has gone bankrupt.

In a small way, this is deserved punishment for the owners — but nowhere near enough. Chemical and fossil fuel octopuses operate by atomizing their facilities under lots of tentacle corporations, so that in the event of an accident, only one tentacle goes bankrupt and the victims can't get compensation.

Perhaps we need laws to make holding companies responsible for the debts of their tentacles.

Congress added a rider to a large bill to bar Obama from transferring CIA drone attacks to the Pentagon.

The reason for that transfer is that the Pentagon has to obey laws of war which the CIA secretly ignores. It is bizarre for Congress to concern itself with such a thing. I wonder if some members of Congress were blackmailed.

Ellen Brown is running for treasurer of California as a campaign to set up a state-owned bank for the state to deposit in and borrow from.

One proposed genetically modified organism seems like probably a good idea.

Genetic engineering is a method of modifying organisms, not a kind of organism. The results are disparate. Whether any given genetic modification is safe (for humans that eat it, for the environment, for the rights of farmers) depends on the details. It has to be tested and evaluated separately for each GM variety, since we have too little experience to generalize about the effects. Likewise, whether it really improves anything is also a matter of details. The GMOs now in use mostly go with use of pesticides.