• Documents shoot holes in Cheney’s theories on torture

  What a difference an election makes. Our national position has now shifted from “we don’t torture” to “we...

   

• EFF sues Obama administration for promised access to secret copyright treaty documents

  Rebecca from the Electronic Frontier Foundation sez, “The U.S. government is still blocking the release of information...

   

• Senators Accuse Pentagon of Delay in Recovering Millions

  The Pentagon has done little to collect at least $100 million in overcharges paid in deals arranged by corrupt former officials...

   

• Obama administration spearheads wage cuts for American workers

  By Patrick Martin | The wage cuts imposed on auto workers at Chrysler and General Motors at the insistence of the Obama...

   

• The compulsive liars in blue

  IT’S NOT the violence of the police that gives away their nature–it’s the systematic compulsive Bart Simpson-style...

   

• Obama administration indicates military commission trials to resume

  Recent statements by top Obama administration officials and reports in the New York Times and Washington Post indicate that...

   

• War Criminals Seek Safe Haven With Lib Dems

  By Craig Murray | Apparently some of the Blairite right of New Labour are in talks with Paddy Pantsdown over the possibility...

   

• MP angered by Street View ‘invasion’

  By Ed O’Mara | CITY MP Stewart Jackson has accused “creepy” global internet giant Google of an unacceptable...

   

• Spain’s Socialist Party government suppresses torture probe of Bush officials

  The Obama administration and Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) government are working in tandem to prevent the prosecution...

   

• Prosecuting War Crimes

  The following is an excerpt from a talk by Nick Mottern on April 19, 2009, delivered after receiving a Peace and Justice...

   

• UN rebuke on racism conference boycott

  TOP UN officials have slammed “a handful” of Western countries for boycotting a UN conference on racism as the...

   

• FBI database use to remain secret

  Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep secret key details...

   

• Obama presidency keeps some Bush secrets

  WASHINGTON – Despite a pledge to open government, the Obama administration has endorsed a Bush-era decision to keep...

   

• A golden opportunity to test Obama pledge on open government

  IT is said to be the most impregnable vault on Earth: built out of granite, sealed behind a 22-tonne door, located on a...

   

• Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth

  By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN and SCOTT RASMUSSEN | It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack...

   

• FDA Scientists Accuse Agency of Corruption, Intimidation

  A group of nine FDA scientists has sent letters to top politicians, accusing agency managers of intimidating and coercing...

   

• Knife crime figures ‘were fiddled’

  Ministers have been accused of “fiddling the figures” after new statistics undermined claims made in a notorious...

   

• U.N. report says U.S. rendition policy broke international law

  By Julie Sell  | LONDON - A U.N. expert is accusing the United States and some of its allies of breaching international...

   

• Obama’s backsliding on torture

  guardian.co.uk | Not long ago, I marched across the gravel of Guantánamo Bay‘s Camp Echo with two overstuffed grocery...

   

• Obama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suit

  By Bob Egelko | President Obama’s Justice Department defended former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo in a San...

   

• George Bush could be next on the war crimes list

  THE HAGUE – George W. Bush could one day be the International Criminal Court’s next target. David Crane, an international...

   

• The Case for Prosecuting Bush Officials

  By Daphne Eviatar | The Senate Judiciary Committee’s “Getting to the Truth Through a Nonpartisan Commission of Inquiry”...

   

• BUSH’S LAWYERS GAVE GREEN LIGHT TO ILLEGAL SPYNG

  By Michael Isikoff  | In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the Justice Department secretly gave the green light for the...

   

• CIA destroyed terror interrogation tapes

  By Alex Spillius | The revelation that far more tapes had been destroyed than previously acknowledged came in a letter filed...

   

• OLC Authorized Pentagon to Ignore Bill of Rights On U.S. Soil

  By Daphne Eviatar  | In an October 2001 memo released on Monday, then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of...