File-sharing has failed once again to kill the movie companies, which are enjoying record profits.

What's especially sad is that most of their profits are for films that are crap. Very likely, you often pay to watch a movie while knowing in advance that it is crap. Why do that?

I recommend joining me in a near-boycott of Hollywood: don't pay to watch a movie unless you have reason to believe it is likely to be good. In principle, that's quite different from an outright boycott; in practice the results are nearly equivalent.

The IMF calls for more government spending. However, the plutocratists that control most governments are more interested in dooH niboR.

Brazil's President Rousseff has been impeached by a vote of many criminals in congress.

It seems a travesty that she is being removed for a much lesser accusation while they can't be removed.

The procedure will be carried out over 180 days.

Greenpeace activists put gas masks on many statues in London.

Everyone: call on the 5 biggest greenhouse emitters to deliver big emissions reductions.