Private Wealth, Public Squalor: America's Dilemma.

Broadband for America, an astroturf group funded by the big ISPs and set up to oppose network neutrality, created a false image of broad community support by listing many organizations as supporters without asking them.

The US military has adopted a policy of covering up war crimes by declaring photos of them "secret".

Urinating on a corpse does no real harm to anyone — it is an insult, not an injury. (If someone pisses on my dead body after I'm dead, I won't even notice it.) I don't see why that should be considered a war crime. However, the same policy would apply to covering up real crimes, including killing and torture.

Published opinions of the US Supreme Court are being surreptitiously changed.

Detecting this is useful, but the real question, I think, is why it happens and why it isn't stopped.

Timberland has created a Kafkaesque policy to prevent prisoners from exchanging defective boots.