Plutocrats are offering public employees discounts from stores if only they quit their unions.

The US system of medical "insurance" could at any moment dump on you a bill for thousands of dollars, or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and make you wish you had been left untreated.

The Guardian has adopted the term "global heating".

Other major media are considering making the same change.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has independently investigated CIA torture. Its report details where prisoners were seized, where they were tortured, and what the CIA did with them afterward.

The London subways plan to track passengers' movements by their phone WiFi.

Supposedly this will be "anonymous", but I am sure they can put a name to most passengers.

I have taken pains to make sure my laptop's WiFi interface is always off except when I explicitly switch it on. Every time I reboot, every time I suspend and unsuspend, it switches off.