A year after South African thugs massacred 34 striking miners, apparently as part of a plan, the government continues to stonewall.

I am in favor of nationalizing the mines; compensation is unnecessary, given how much the owners have profited and how much they ought to owe to their past and present workers. However, merely changing the identity of the owner won't by itself result in decent treatment for miners, or the poor in general.

Here's a list of companies and pressure groups that sponsored the latest ALEC meeting.

ExxonMobil, Wells Fargo and UPS would be easy to boycott. People in the computer field could put pressure on SAP.

US citizens: call on the senate to take action against global heating.

US citizens: call on the State Department to dismiss ERM from evaluating the environmental impact of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.

ERM concealed a conflict of interest: a business tie to Transcanada.

The NSA's official rules on surveillance mean little, since it breaks those rules thousands of times every year.