US citizens: call on Obama to oppose Israel's plan to destroy Bedouin villages and to call on Israel to respect nonviolent protest.

US citizens: call on the FDA to prohibit labeling GMOs as "natural".

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say, support Rush Holt's repeal of the PAT RIOT Act.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

Glenn Greenwald comments on the shutdown of Lavabit.

I think the Obama regime will rue the day it did this. I cheer the courage of Lavabit's owner, who has dealt tyranny a great blow.

The second in charge of the CIA listed the "security threats" that the US faces, and none of them is much of a threat. So why not have a smaller military?

The principal real threats to the well-being of Americans are plutocracy and global heating. A large army can't tax the megacorps' offshored profits or hold back the rising sea. But it can feed our money to the military-industrial complex, and start wars.