Is “Sorry” Enough? Facebook Built Empire on Harvesting Personal Information with Little Oversight

Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify today on Capitol Hill amid the burgeoning scandal about how the voter-profiling company Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of more than 87 million Facebook users, without their permission, in efforts to sway voters to support President Donald Trump. In prepared remarks ahead of his testimony today, he writes, "We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake.

Deep and Abiding Disrespect for Teachers

"Many teachers use their own money to buy school supplies because s tate legislatures have cut education spending year after year while giving businesses and the rich tax cuts." When coal-mine bosses said mules were more precious than men because dead miners could be replaced for free, but not dead mules, it demonstrated disrespect.

Gunboat Diplomacy and the Ghost of Captain Mahan

After years of seeming compliance with Washington's rules for good global citizenship, China's recent actions in Central Asia and the continent's surrounding seas have revealed a two-phase strategy that would, if successful, undercut the perpetuation of American global power. Amid the intense coverage of Russian cyber-maneuvering and North Korean missile threats, another kind of great-power rivalry has been playing out quietly in the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Greenpeace USA Responds to Suspension of Kinder Morgan Pipeline…

Kinder Morgan Canada announced that it intends to suspend all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project in response to continued opposition to the project. Nearly 200 people have now been arrested taking action against the pipeline, blockading construction in British Columbia, while as many as 10,000 people, including supporters from the US, marched in support of Indigenous Peoples' resistance against the pipeline on March 10th.

Denver Post Rebels Against Hedge-Fund Owners

The Denver Post is in open revolt against its owner. Angry and frustrated journalists at the 125-year-old newspaper took the extraordinary step this weekend of publicly blasting its New York-based hedge-fund owner and making the case for its own survival in several articles that went online Friday and are scheduled to run in The Post's Sunday opinion section.

Sunday Toons of the ‘Lost Control of the Agenda’ Moment

Admin buries grim NOAA report; Trump trade war will hurt drillers; Interior to nix nat'l park fee hike; PLUS : Major oil CEO admits fossil fuels cause climate change -- 20 years ago... Guest: Pam Vogel of Media Matters; Also: Good news for voters in two big voter registration cases in TX, FL... Trump dumps fuel efficiency standards; DoJ sues CA; Exxon's case to stop climate investigation gets booted by court; PLUS : Enviro groups hope to 'Boot Pruitt'... Ernest Canning's father was tortured during WWII.

Syrian Regime kills dozens in Chem attack on Douma Holdout Enclave: Why?

The Saudi-backed fundamentalist militia "Army of Islam" in the Douma district of East Ghouta near Damascus alleged Sunday that the al-Assad regime had dropped a barrel bomb full of chlorine and other chemicals on the rebel enclave on Saturday. Initial reports said that some 41, including non-combatants and including children, were killed, some with tell-tale signs of frothing around the mouth.

Capital Strike?

Elizabeth Bruenig's column in the Washington Post yesterday is strange. At the heart of it is an analogy to help us make sense of advertisers abandoning Laura Ingraham's show in light of her taunting David Hogg: Yet it's not quite right to classify these advertisers' decisions as a straightforward boycott.

‘I’ll Say No’: Oregon Governor Will Reject Any Request …

Oregon Governor Kate Brown said Thursday that she had no plans to honor any request from President Donald Trump to deploy her state's National Guard to the U.S.-Mexico border. Should President Donald Trump follow through on his plan to deploy the National Guard to the southern border to deter migration from Mexico and Central America, he won't be able to count on Oregon's 5,800 soldiers.