Two million people protested Monsanto's growing domination of the global food supply.

Scripps reporters branded "hackers".

What a gross error — whoever accused them of breaking security meant to say "crackers". However, the point is, these reporters did not break any security.

Prosecuting unwelcome access even though no security was broken is a common practice in the US; it was applied to Aaron Swartz and to Weev, who was actually convicted.

And Republicans want to make things even worse.

Human Rights Watch: regarding "War on Terror" and Guantanamo, Obama should follow international law, which the US has so far ignored.

An art exhibition in China aims to raise awareness of global heating.

The Chinese government decided to allow this exhibit, since it would close anything it regarded as unfriendly. Ironically, the Chinese government may be more resistant to plutocratic control than the US government. The Chinese rulers are the plutocrats, rather than the servants of the plutocrats, and they realize that China as a whole (including them) will be poorer if the environment is destroyed.

David Simon says legalizing solely marijuana is a misguided goal, because it would help American whites while allowing the War on Drugs to continue oppressing blacks who take and sell cocaine.

He also says that they need to sell cocaine because that's the only work available to them.

I am not convinced. I think each time we deal a setback to the War on Drugs will help get rid of the rest of it. Meanwhile, if cocaine were decriminalized enough to end the oppression of the War on Drugs, it would also become far less lucrative. It would no longer be able to support all the blacks who can no longer find any other industry.

What we really need to do is end the oppression of the surplus Americans. A lot more Americans are going to become surplus in the next decade due to robots and AI.

It is the plutocrats who have decided to condemn these people to poverty, so we must redirect the War on Drugs into a War on Plutocracy.