Apple has routed billions of dollars in profits to subsidiaries that claim to belong to no state and pay no taxes.

I've proposed a way to cut through this problem.

The FBI read a reporter's email to find his source, and claimed his investigation was a "criminal conspiracy" because he was asking the source questions.

That reporter and his source tried to conceal their communication. This was presented as a sign of guilt, but it is simple common sense for journalists working in a state that persecutes journalists. It is a shame they did not follow best secrecy practices.

I am glad that Obama's War on Journalism is finally getting condemnation. When journalists investigate what our government is doing, they and their sources our country and protect it from the biggest internal threat it faces: the national security state which is dominated by plutocrats.

James Hansen says, ignore global heating deniers' attempts to cause confusion by picking at minor and short-term details.

It was recently understood that in the past decade, global heating did not slow down; rather, a larger fraction went into the ocean rather than the atmosphere.

A planned episode of Mythbusters which would have exposed the lousy security of RFID payment systems was cancelled by the channel because advertising clients didn't want this exposed.

Oil is structuring the reshaping of Iraq and perhaps Syria along ethnic and sectarian lines.