Republicans are campaigning against a fictitious "war on coal".

We should have a war on coal. Coal mining is done today by removing the top of a mountain, which poisons the surrounding streams permanently. Burning the coal produces pollution that kills people, too. And it contributes greatly to global heating.

Therefore, it is no surprise that the corporatocracy in the US has no "war on coal". Coal mining continues as before; as the US burns less coal, it exports more to be burned elsewhere.

Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is a distributed sweatshop.

It's not the only sweatshop that Amazon runs. Amazon mistreats independent bookstores, publishers, authors, the national treasury, and its workers — as well as readers that use the Amazon Swindle.

Speculation: Google shut down Google Reader because RSS does not fit with server companies' idea of controlling everything a user does.

You shouldn't use Facebook or Google+, or any communications service that demands to know your "real name".

MasterCard has voluntarily resumed allowing donations to Wikileaks.

Where should Snowden go to be immune from US authorities?