Japanese Prime Minister Abe's government is enmeshed in a scandalous push to change national security laws, allowing far more overseas ...

President Obama reportedly congratulated his "outstanding partner" British Prime Minister David Cameron. "Outstanding partne...

Official comments on the Sandra Bland death in police custody must be doubted. Why after three days was this woman still jailed? The pr...

A lively young woman, rousted & jailed in Texas for not signalling a turn, is now dead. Sandy Bland was a newly-hired administrator f...

Corporate governance took two major hits this week, as Samsung agreed an insider-friendly merger within Korea over substantial opposition ,...

Nobody yet officially says the 2020 Olympics scheduled for Tokyo are impossible. But plans for the main stadium have been shredded -- to ...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has been near the center of American power since 1992, that's twenty-three years. She talks fancy, but the botto...

Data breach (link) at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management releases detailed financial & personal information about 21.5 million Ame...

Celebrating 1000 posts published! Uncomplicated premise to these publications: simple reflections But what motivates composition? Typ...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB , ( 亚洲基础设施投资银行 or 亚投行 ) had their official signing ceremony today . Read here (link) abo...

How are smiles by America's leaders reconciled with news of US targeted infiltration & spying on the German Chancellor, the French ...

Giant corporate media or MegaMedia ® Media Know what it is - - Know your enemy! Last January 11 (2015) huge anti-racist rallies too...

Corporate restaurants McDonalds, Jack in the Box, and KFC fast food outlets shouldn't supply all your nourishment - it's unhealthy...

There is no Fast Track -- the whole effort's by definition already a sell-out to industry . Why should global-level multinational cor...

Korea has launched the X-Project (X-프로젝트), offering ₩ 5 million plus the Science Minister's Prize for the question judged most capable ...

The United States of America illegally kills many people overseas in undeclared wars. American politicians and technocrats rain death upon...

Have you ever questioned authority?  Maybe didn't follow directions fully? Perhaps you colored outside the lines? Obey - or suffer ...

Pandemic disease is a very real threat to modern societies. Yes, a large proportion of mankind may suddenly die. But initial survivors will...

The USA Patriot Act is used for mass surveillance and heavy-handed repression; the law gave secret weapons to unelected shadowy operatives...

Julian Assange has been under grave threat since founding Wikileaks in late 2006. Wikileaks promised to open a window onto high-level cor...

Many years ago I learned in school that most states holding nuclear weapons have agreed in theory to cut back; in exchange, the many state...

Last weekend a women's group of prominent activists walked to the Korean border, drawing attention to more than 60 ...

Dark & selfish interests would like Europe to fall apart. There'd be much more defense spending, and many more huge weapons sales...

We live in a world where our representatives are powerless. Democracy is kept in the dark. Fast Track gives corporate insiders the rig...

I've not yet seen the Amirani film "We Are Many" opening today. But look at the trailer (here) and recognize:   we'r...

Major meatpackers join sweatshops & convict labor operations to celebrate a WTO finding: labels mean restraint of trade . Because con...

Fast Track legislation on secret trade deals guts protective laws. Corporate giants and big capital, free to do much as they wish, can clai...

Yankee & Co. imprison, torture, and kill without trial or remorse. Such acts are unjust and criminal. But the world does little or no...

There's no back-story available for people we kill with drones. Many hundreds, perhaps thousands of people enjoying innocent quiet live...

The top-secret TPP was given a sharp stick up its arse by the US Senate, which refused to allow the Executive Branch ability to "fast ...