Companies are recruiting teachers and schools to give them personal data about lots of students.

It makes no difference what the companies say about how they will use the data: merely letting them see it is a violation of the students' privacy.

The Mexican government, or perhaps an allied gang, is using spambots to drown out protesters on Twitter.

A summary of how society in the UK has changed for the worse since the 1970s. Most of this applies to the US as well.

A considerable amount of this is due to Reagan and Thatcher , and their right-wing successors in both parties (including Clinton and B'liar). A considerable amount of this is due to business-dominated globalization, which was to a large extent intended to produce such results.

Nathan Hornes describes how the for-profit degree mill Everest College gave him a worthless "education", but leading a student debt strike gave him a real one.

The coup-derived president of Honduras, who won an election apparently using funds stolen from the state, now confronts a powerful opposition movement.

Obama did not say outright that he supported the coup, but there is plenty of evidence that the US did back it.