We are increasingly aware our politics have been captured by lobbyists and industries, so what can we do about it?

WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is slowly dying in a UK prison, as the US maintains its fight to have him die in theirs – but there is hope

The systems game and the need for global regime change

Direct action protest and the rise of a new resistance movement

Some good news about online privacy has just popped up

Myanmar’s systematic attack on its own people has been ignored for too long

The risk posed by the global weapons complex is much worse than you know

An insider’s guide to government

Adam Greenfield’s ‘Radical Technologies’ is an essential guide to the tech revolution

Paul Mason’s ‘PostCapitalism’ and the future of economics