Solar Would Be Cheaper: US Pentagon Has Spent $8 Trillion to Guard Gulf Oil.

Without the large government subsidies for fossil fuel, solar would be cheaper anyway.

Amnesty International will sue the UK about probable phone call snooping.

The UK government has created excuses to ignore such cases by hearing the evidence secretly.

The K Street Perversion of Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Uri Avnery: Kerry is making the mistake of taking Israel's obsolete "security concerns" seriously.

The American Studies Association voted to join the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

This follows a debate at a meeting in which over 80% of the speakers (randomly chosen from those who asked to speak) supported the boycott.

The full membership is now voting on the resolution.