Viewing the fighting in Syria as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

I don't think Saudi Arabia is likely to use its influence to hold back Islamist extremists, since it has spent years funding and supplying them. There have been reports about this all along, and the US government must have know about this. The US ignored the Saudi connection as al-Qa'ida, boosted by Saudi money, took over the Syrian resistance to Iran's friend. What kind of strategy was that?

A Genentech scam against Medicare: selling a very expensive drug Lucentis where cheap Avastin would work just as well.

The article extends too much sympathy to pharma companies. They have corrupted the medical system in many ways, rip off Americans so much, and lobby for deadly patents in countries with lots of poor people, so they don't deserve sympathy.

32 Privacy Destroying Technologies That Are Systematically Transforming America [and the world] Into A Giant Prison.

USaid rejects all support to abortion in poor countries, and fear of this leads many women's health clinics in poor countries to refuse to do abortions at all.

Amazon "sold" someone Disney Christmas videos, but not physical copies; subsequently Amazon, at Disney's command, cut off access for Christmas.

This demonstrates why we should not trust remote hosting disservices. Insist on having your own copy which is yours.