After the journal journal Food and Chemical Toxicology published a paper reporting that GMO corn caused cancer in rats, it hired a new editor who used to work for Monsanto, and he retracted the paper.

The article links to change.org, which is unfortunate since you can't sign an article there except by running a nonfree program. The same with links to vimeo.

Google funds many right-wing campaigns in the US, including ALEC and tea party nut Senator Cruz, and "tax reform" that would tax the rich less.

A witness says Mark Duggan was surrendering, with his hands up and a phone in his hand, when a thug shot him.

Australia arrested a former official who was going to be a witness at the Hague, and raided his lawyer's office for legal documents.

The case concerns Australian spying during negotiations with East Timor for a treaty over fossil fuels. The witness was going to prove that Australia bugged the Timorese negotiating team. Apparently the current Australian government is so subservient to fossil fuel interests that it will trash traditional civil liberties for them.

The court should regard the witness's claims as proven conclusively by his arrest. That will serve the cause of justice in this case. Repairing the damage to civil liberties in Australia will take rather more.

Alec lost 40 corporate sponsors after the killing of Trayvon Martin, but it is furiously planning how to get them back into a new organization with a different name.

One sponsor it has not lost yet is Google. Please sign the petition calling on Google to stop supporting Alec.