The world is approaching "peak water", when the supplies of fresh water for growing plants will decrease. Countries including the US, India and China are exhausting the aquifers they use.

We could make enough food with considerably less water, if we ate a lot less beef. However, in the long them, the regions that can't grow food any more need to stop their populations from growing.

Updates to the Internet Music page.

Supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership call it a "trade treaty", but most of it is not about trade at all. It's about giving corporations more power.

For instance, the TPP would ban the sorts of regulation needed to keep banks from cheating their clients and causing a financial crisis.

UK thugs secretly recorded a meeting between Duwayne Brooks and his lawyer.

The thugs were trying to frame Brooks for the murder of his best friend, rather than find who really did it.

Verizon wants to stop providing land-line telephone service in some areas, and force people to use a wireless service that is technically limited, unreliable in disasters, and imposes nasty conditions.