Obama promised plutocrats he would impose the TPP over the opposition of most Democrats and most Americans.

I've always considered him a Republican in disguise.

Thousands of fast food workers and airline workers and medical care workers went on strike across the US to demand a living wage.

Kerry proposes to continue war against PISSI for years, but there is no reason to think such a war could ever be won.

I think this is part of a plan to slowly send a large number of US troops to fight PISSI on the ground.

Attrition, and death of some leaders, can't defeat PISSI. Land battles can push PISSI back, but doing this with US troops would not work because their occupation would inspire the same resentment as before.

It is impossible to defeat PISSI except by giving Iraqi and Syrian Sunnis a way to be safe from Shi'ite repression. If they get this, they may well throw PISSI out. However, the current repressive behavior of Iraqi Shi'ite militias surely convince them to they must keep supporting PISSI

A prominent Pakistani Muslim faces charges of blasphemy.

Maybe the country will self-destruct in a web of crossed blasphemy accusations.

The NSA spies on emails of employees of phone companies in "allied" countries to find how to attack their phone systems.

It even goes as far as introducing security weaknesses into phone systems, undermining security against an crackers whatsoever.