Pakistan has had extreme heat waves in recent years; the Indus river has run dry and this is spreading waterborne diseases. Hundreds at least have been killed.

Global heating is partly responsible, and will make things much worse.

The UK government could force Bermuda to expose tax evaders, but it might prefer to fail and say "See, we tried."

US citizens: phone your senators to support the Arbitration Fairness Act, which would stop companies from imposing forced arbitration on customers and employees.

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

Attacks on Edward Snowden follow the standard pattern of retaliation against whistleblowers.

TIME Magazine Equates Whistleblowers with Spies in Cover Story on Snowden, Manning & Swartz.

Walmart is moving increasingly to temporary workers, who get no benefits.

It continues to get clothing from factories it said it would reject on grounds of worker safety.