• Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges

  When Obama first unveiled his “preventive detention” policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different...

   

• Agents say DEA is forcing them illegally to work in Afghanistan

  As the Obama administration ramps up the Drug Enforcement Administration’s presence in Afghanistan, some special-agent...

   

• Iran Police Crack Down As Thousands Protest

  His backers were demonstrating over the re-election of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won by a landslide despite...

   

• Iranians Use Internet, Phones to Share Protest News

  With independent media coverage of Iranian protests restricted by authorities, witnesses are reaching out online and by telephone...

   

• Why Obama’s CIO Wants to Put All Gov’t Info Online

  The Obama administration’s most radical idea may also be its geekiest: Make nearly every hidden government spreadsheet...

   

• All in a day’s work for the Israeli army: beating and torturing children

  Jonathan Cook reports on how Israeli soldiers routinely, and as a matter of policy, practise torture against Palestinian...

   

• Al Qaeda leader arrested over Sunni MP’s killing

  Iraqi police arrested a top Al-Qaeda operative on Wednesday over the killing of a senior Sunni Muslim MP and human rights...

   

• Craig Murry on Iran

  For me, any sensible discussion of Iran must accept a number of facts. I will set these out as Set A and Set B. Both sets...

   

• EU “disturbed” by Iraq executions, calls for freeze

  The European Union protested against reported executions in Iraq on Monday and called on Baghdad to resume a moratorium on...

   

• Iran Restricts Foreign Media

  Cell Phone Network Shut Down, Websites Blocked in Effort to Control Information Coming Out of Tehran As Friday’s election...

   

• MEP Nick Griffin – An audience with a racist

  Nick Griffin: MEP elect, BNP mouthpiece, convicted Holocaust-denier and would-be deporter of black people invites me into...

   

• Racist rants of elected BNP man, Andrew Brons, revealed

  One of the British National party’s first MEPs’ attempts to play down his past links to the extreme right as...

   

• Iran polls prompt vote rigging allegations

  Iran went to the polls today in presidential elections, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seeking a second four-year term. Four...

   

• Iran election may decide war or peace for Middle East

  More than 42 million Iranians are eligible to vote Friday in the presidential election, and long lines were reported around...

   

• Spying Teachers – MI5 Wants Recruits

  Now pay attention school teachers: your country needs you. The British Security Service MI5 is seeking to recruit teachers...

   

• The Ugly Side of Globalization: Slavery

  The offer came to families on the edge of desperation, living and working around the clock on garbage dumps whose sickening...

   

• US cybersecurity plan poses new war threats

  By Tom Eley | President Barack Obama announced on Friday the creation of a new “cyber czar” position. The Cybersecurity...

   

• High court rejects claims against Ashcroft

  By Joan Biskupic | WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Pakistani man’s civil rights...

   

• On British “success” in Iraq

  By David Morrison | “Tony Blair, I’m afraid, would never accept that our foreign policy actually had any impact...

   

• The Politics of Excusing Torture In The Name of National Security

  Allow me to share some analysis about the way things work in Washington. President Obama’s flip-flop on his agreement...

   

• British Government claims it wants to extend Freedom of Information Act

  By Warwick Ashford  | The UK’s Freedom of Information Act is to be extended beyond public sector bodies, it emerged...

   

• How U.S. Officials Circumvented the Bill of Rights

  By Jacob G. Hornberger | In another embrace of President Bush’s war-on-terrorism policies, President Obama has announced...

   

• Senate Hears Testimony On Torture Policy

  A key Senate subcommittee is set to hear testimony today on the torture policies of the Bush administration. The hearing,...

   

• How Americans Came to Support Torture, in Five Steps

  By Roy Eidelson | In recent weeks, new revelations about the harsh interrogation and torture of detainees during the Bush...

   

• British Labour’s divisive Equality Bill

  The government’s Equality Bill has been condemned as “socialism in one clause” by Britain’s right wing and a “landmark”...