US citizens: call on Congress to protect workers' rights to publicly report unsafe working conditions.

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

If you call please spread the word!

The underlying cause of the Siberian oil spill was global heating, but the immediate cause was the lack of proper required maintenance on the facility.

The spill has reached a lake which is an important regional water supply. Next stop, the Arctic Ocean.

*The US is still segregated — but is our democracy up to the challenge?.*

Violent protests open a door to violent racist provocations.

Community defense groups can substitute for official thugs, but they face the same temptation to slide into gang warfare.

Apple still censors for China — and acts as China's enforcer to make other companies censor for China.

Apple is responsible for its actions, but one general problem that tends to encourage this behavior is the fact that companies are multinational. China will always find a way to censor companies that do business in China. And so will many other countries.

I think we must limit a forum to doing actual business in one single country. It could allow people to post and read without asking them what countries they are in. This way, other countries would have no levers over the company, no way to make it censor anything.