US citizens: support a basic income for all citizens.

A House committee rejected a small step towards greater accountability for civilian casualties of drone attacks.

Senator Franken asks for a federal investigation of commercial use of face recognition.

I think this is a positive step, but what we really need to investigate, and limit, is the use of face recognition by the government, and its ability to collect images to recognize.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Attempting to Undermine Anti-Bribery Law, Public Citizen Report Shows.

Oil companies plan to create enormous toxic lakes full of waste water from tar sands oil extraction.

There is no way of knowing how far the toxins will spread. At low temperatures they may degrade especially slowly. (Toxic metals last forever, unless they happen to be radioactive.)

If the cost of proper disposal of these toxins were included in the cost of that oil, it would be so expensive that nobody would buy it today.