The "hunger summit" is a front for corporate colonization and land grabs in Africa.

If agribusiness succeeds in boosting food production in Africa, it is likely to be exported, while those dispossessed of their land are forced to cities to look for work.

Obama personally has pushed the use of executive privilege to shield massive surveillance from the courts.

This is the same man who said we should trust courts to limit surveillance.

329 charges against a kidnaper shows how prosecution in the US has become absurd.

From what I've read, he kidnaped and raped three women, and ought to be charged with this. He ought to get a fair trial, which I suppose would result in his conviction based on the testimony of the victims.

However, anyone who faces 329 charges, even if innocent, is unlikely to ever get a fair trial because he will accept a plea bargain.

What the US government gets when it tracks "metadata" such as URLs visited and phone numbers called.

If you're a whistleblower, it also finds out if you phoned a reporter.

Holder says he will not prosecute any reporter for doing his job. He aims rather to make the job impossible, by drying up all their sources.