The austerity myth: there has never been any evidence that it was eventually good for most people.

However, its purpose was to be good for the plutocrats, and the myth was needed only as an excuse.

If you buy the book, don't get it from Amazon!

Why Should Apple Have Access to Consumers If It Refuses to Pay Its Fair Share of Taxes?

The patent office granted a patent on a simple matter of timing in IVF.

I agree that the patent office should not stretch what is patentable.

As a practical issue, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents do far more harm, because they kill people. These patents prevent births but do not kill.

In an age when human population growth threatens to cause the collapse of civilization, and destroy most of the natural world either before or just after the collapse, nobody should be doing IVF. If you yearn to raise a child, adopt one. Channel your instinct in a direction that makes the world better, not worse.

The Syrian civil war may trigger another Lebanese civil war.

The USDA responded to a WTO ruling against labeling meat by country of origin by requiring more information rather than less.

It is good to see a little bit of defiance of the empire of the megacorporations, but real defiance would mean putting an end to the WTO. Its "benefits" are for the rich anyway, and we could do without them.