The CIA said it had no file on Noam Chomsky, but it had one in 1970.

Australia plans a nuclear waste dump in aboriginal territory without the consent of the aboriginal people that live there.

Part of Australia plans to let mines pollute as much as they like at any given time, as long as the yearly average stays under a certain level.

US citizens: call on elected officials not to let the NSA open its new Utah data center.

The NSA already stores too much data about all of us; if storage limitations force it to be selective, that will crimp its excesses. Obviously, this is not a full or elegant solution, but it is a step forward.

US citizens: call for increasing social security benefits and remove the cap on social security tax for the rich.