Urban Surveillance State Prototype in Oakland Exemplifies "Security" Mission Creep.

Kafka's America: Secret Courts, Secret Laws, and Total Surveillance.

US citizens: comment to the SEC in support of requiring publicly traded corporations to disclose their political spending.

In rural Yemen, villagers think of supporting al Qa'ida so they will get paved roads and electricity. (They fear drone attacks in any case.)

The congresscritters who voted to continue collecting all US phone call data are getting paid more by the companies that profit from doing it.

The consumerist economy is a recent thing, and it is unsustainable and already starting to collapse. Which poses the question of how to move forward.