New FDA Food Label Rules Ignore the GMO Elephant in the Room.

Uri Avnery comments on Ukraine, and compares the situation with the one that started World War I.

A step forward in understanding the causes of Alzheimer's disease highlights the need to send more research funds efforts in that direction, rather than for war or weapons.

Republicans oppose research into preventing senility because it might enable a bunch of embittered old people to stop being Republican.

The biggest stockholders in the Canadian tar oil sands are the Koch brothers.

Yahoo, Google and Apple claim the right to look at users' emails "if necessary".

I don't think that this criterion of "protecting the property" of the company can be justified. However, there may be times when looking at users' files is necessary for the maintenance of the mail service itself.

In that sort of situation, I think the service operator must be allowed to do it. To prevent abuses, the sysadmins who do this should never be allowed to talk about what they have seen.

If the criteria are broader than that, we should oppose them.