"Smart" electricity meters are not only surveillance devices, but sabotage devices too.

It is most likely that crackers from China could turn off your electric supply at will. It is certain that agents from your own unjust and lawless state could do so.

In Egypt, both the Muslim Brotherhood and the supporters of the military are accusing the US of supporting the other side.

Uganda: Rigged Elections And Mysterious Killings: It's the Mugabe Script with a Different Cast.

In May, Obama promised to give us transparency about drone attacks. He has done none of that.

Who Dies in Yemen Drone Strikes?

5 Myths Used to Justify Death By Drone and America's Assassination Policy.

The Great Divestiture (privatization state services to human beings) has been coupled with the Great Risk Shift (employers dumping various responsibilities onto individuals).

What we need is not "economic recovery" but reversal of those two changes. We must nationalize; we must reregulate. And, as the article says, we must aid and encourage unions.