WTO negotiations to extend a business-supremacy treaty, GATS, aim to impose privatization on public medical systems such as the NHS.

Privatizing any government service leads to low wages, bad service, and lack of accountability. If the private implementers are "more efficient" that's because they pay workers less or cut corners.

One of the dangers of the "internet of stings" is that if you lose your internet service you also lose control of your house and appliances.

It is a shame that the article refers to people accused of forbidden sharing as "pirates", as if sharing copies were somehow wrong.

It is well known that designing an appliance so that the owner needs to connect to it through the internet, rather than locally and directly, makes it insecure in many ways. To that list we must add the danger of being disconnected from it.

Those insecurities are in addition to the malicious things that the appliance could be built to do you.

For your safety, don't use any appliance with a connected to the real internet.

Republican saboteurs will do anything to boost fossil fuel extraction, even letting the drillers endanger their workers' lives.

As environmentalists try to reduce plastic pollution that is choking the oceans, Big Oil is investing in increasing production.

Government agencies in the US sometimes sue people for making FOIA requests. It is completely bogus, but if you are not in a position to deal with being sued, it is very intimidating.