Asking the public to admire underpaid "heroes" is an excuse for not giving them a raise. The Tories' treatment of the NHS shows this clearly.

*China's five year plan could push emissions higher unless action is taken.*

Everyone: call on McDonald's to stop snooping on workers' advocacy of raising the minimum wage.

The New Enlightenment And the Fight to Free Knowledge, a book by Peter Kaufman, describes the forces that have purposely crippled efforts to share knowledge widely and freely, and proposes how to defeat them. In the interest of full disclosure I have to admit that the book says very nice things about me. But it's about a lot more than me.

The book is being published on line one chapter at a time, under CC-BY; eventually the whole book will be there. Nicely printed copies are also available.

How the EU Commission Broke Its Own Rules to Let the Biotech Industry Help Rewrite GMO Safety Laws.

By selecting the questions to ask, and who to ask them of, it is not hard to shape the answers.