Glenn Greenwald says he will not remain in exile forever, even though the US government refuses to say whether he will be prosecuted for his journalism.

More about how CIA drone attacks are aimed at SIM cards identified based on metadata.

Obama is considering launching an assassination of an American in a country where the US is not at war.

The fact that no attempt has been made to charge that person with a crime adds to the scandal, but if there were charges against that person, that would not justify summary execution.

The Stasi, the East German secret police, collected metadata too. But it could not collect everyone's metadata as the US does.

Janet Yellen acknowledged that the US "economic recovery" has failed to provide jobs.

While I am glad Yellen recognizes the problem, interest rates have little leverage for correcting it. Low interest rates help banksters make more money, but they have no reason to put this into the rest of the economy. What we need is to expand deficit spending. When Obama endorsed the Republicans' goal of deficit cutting, he screwed the US until we replace him.