US hospitals are raising prices rapidly, though their costs have not increased much.

The burden of these increases falls hardest on those with no insurance.

Lawmakers Introduce Bill Requiring Court Order to Seize Phone Records.

This is a partial step forward but not adequate. Obama's War on Whistleblowers could surely get a court order to pursue the next Ellsberg or Manning.

Obama's proposed law to "shield" journalists would really make journalists (and our right to know what the state is doing) more vulnerable.

To get back our privacy rights, we need to end the practice of making complete dossiers of everything we say, to be looked at later.

Blogger Writes about Predatory Publishing, Is Threatened with $1B Suit.

Thierry Vrain, a scientist who promoted GMOs for the Canadian government, states why their testing is inadequate, and how science has found they are dangerous.

"Liberal" pundits said Obama should break a union, to show he is as tough on workers as Reagan was.

This illustrates how the mainstream media often presents a spectrum of views stretching from extreme right wing to not-so-extreme right wing, and calls the latter "Liberal". The views of most Americans, on many scales, are much more Liberal than that whole spectrum.

What we need is a president who is tough against the powerful that are doing tremendous harm, such as the banksters, Big Pharma, the copyright lobby, and fossil fuel companies.