US citizens: call on the EPA to follow its own conclusions and protect Bristol Bay, by banning Pebble Mine, if you haven't done so already.

The Koch brothers are recruiting lots of people to submit comments in favor of the mine. Please help cancel them out!

Someone started violence before 100,000 started a peaceful mass protest in Chile.

I wonder if the violence was organized by thugs as a provocation. That is standard thug tactics.

Glenn Greenwald gives suggestive evidence his Skype conversation was monitored.

The UK's program to get disabled people to work is failure at its stated purpose. However, it was quite effective at fabricating excuses to cut off benefits by falsely claiming that people were not disabled.

James Comey's threat to resign blocked the NSA's massive surveillance only until it found another legal excuse for that surveillance. That one, he accepted, it appears.

The NSA systematically collected email metadata about everyone in the US for two years under Obama.

This apparently included every communication between people whose identity the NSA did not know (since in that case it would not have known that either party was a US citizen).