Embroiled in a pivotal Supreme Court case in which they are charged with complicity in killings, torture and other crimes that left 800 dead and 30,000 displaced from their homes, all in the name of suppressing peaceful opposition to their development plans, Shell Oil has blocked news of the case from over 70,000 employees who heard about it from Shell's "Grassroots Employee Empowerment Division" - which, as it turns out, doesn't exist. From The Yes Men and People Against Legalizing Murder.

With the calamitous "war" on drugs claiming its three latest hapless victims - a border patrol agent in Arizona, a mother of five in California, a guy in Tennessee who lived in the house next to an alleged drug dealer - an in-depth look at the controversial, often fatal use of untrained, unregulated, often woefully ill-equipped young offenders as informants in up to 80% of drug busts in this country. From The New Yorker.

“They can get us into the places we can’t go. Without them, narcotics operations would practically cease to function.”

In the wake of a profanity-laced Samuel Jackson video for Obama that's gone viral, a rebuttal that cites drone attacks, increased surveillance and too many civilian deaths in Pakistan as "grounds for dissension." From Reason.

"And citizens killed by executive order/And citizens killed by executive order/And citizens killed.../The record's not stuck/ This is actually happening/So wake the f*ck up!"