The 93-year-old Malaysian prime minister has proposed a gold-backed trading currency for southeast Asia - taking bets on what happens next. A) he dies of "old age," plus a couple bullets to the head B) Malaysia comes down with a bad case of al-Qaeda & the US has to pour democracy on it C) a people-power revolution whose logo prominently features an upraised fist overthrows the government. The world needs more Mahathir Mohameds.
May 27: Privacy: luxury or anachronism? Psychiatry: joke or emetic? Nuclear: necessary evil or just evil?
*Apple v. Google: police state apologists duke it out over privacy
Global energy agency warns aging nuclear infrastructure dooms sustainability goals
May 28: Assange indictment dooms journalism; eugenics gets a bad rap; Israel flips off world; more satellites than stars
Assange indictments are designed to criminalize antagonistic journalism
Israel to ICC: murdering Palestinians in cold blood is none of your business
SpaceX launch alerts astronomers to future of satellite-clogged skies
May 29: Fresh-fracked freedom; diversity or death; Macron's thugs harass journalists; insane in the McCain
US Energy Dept rechristens liquefied natural gas 'molecules of freedom'
White admins sue NYC over racist enforced-diversity policies
Le Monde journalist refuses to cough up sources on Benalla affair
Trump says he never gave order to 'hide' USS John McCain
May 30: Malaysian PM pulls a Gaddafi; tariffs Trump Mexico; NSA targeting system comes home; Russiagate hates peace; Monsanto screwed
Mahathir signs death warrant with gold-backed trading currency proposal
Markets slide as Mexico tariff threatens Trump's free trade utopia
NSA targeting system: you loved it in Iraq, now it's watching you in Texas
Russiagate is greatest threat to world peace as US tears up treaties, alienates allies
Los Angeles sues Monsanto over PCB contamination
May 31: NSA rewrote assassination rules for Israel; DHS to "help" Guatemala; Facebook says privacy dead; mass shooting of the week
NSA rewrote targeting rules to feed Israel assassination info
Not-so-homeland-security DHS dispatched to Guatemala to 'help' with border enforcement
Facebook lawyer says no such thing as privacy
State Dept asks visa applicants for 5 years social media history
Mass shooting of the week club, Virginia Beach edition