Automation is the central factor behind a 10% fall in wages for British workers without unusual marketable skills, and it is going to get worse. More or less the same is happening in the US.

The solution is obvious: tax the rich to spread the benefits that automation provides.

PISSI enslaves captured women. Some have escaped, and then a strange thing happens: they feel ashamed, rather than proud of their strength and courage.

I think this reflects twisted patriarchal gender attitudes, the same ones that provide the soil for PISSI to grow in.

If you want to watch the video from youtube, don't watch it embedded — that uses nonfree software. Instead, fetch it with youtube-dl.

PISSI captures and kills Iraqi journalists too.

Republicans insanely condemn Obama's rational response to the danger of Ebola virus.

What they demand to avoid at all costs is what will make the US safer from Ebola and other future epidemics: supporting proper public health systems in poor countries.

An accused terrorist in the UK is being tried partly in secret.

A secret trial is an unjust trial, but we have already seen enough to condemn one the charges, that of "possessing a document". For there to be any work that it is forbidden to have a copy of is incompatible with human rights.

A review of Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, by James Risen.