• NY judge: NSA can refuse to discuss wiretapping

  WASHINGTON (AP) | The National Security Agency does not need to tell lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees whether their...

   

• $2 billion in U.S. aid to Pakistan questioned

  By Greg Miller | WASHINGTON — The United States has paid more than $5 billion to reimburse Pakistan for counter-terrorism...

   

• Iraq authorities say U.S. soldiers killed 9 civilians

  By Doug Smith | BAGHDAD — Nine Iraqi civilians were killed Wednesday in two armed clashes involving U.S. soldiers,...

   

• Oh! What a Lovely (drugs) War

  By Ron F | According to UN figures, in the 2000 growing season opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan covered 82,000 hectares....

   

• Zimbabwe and the Question of Imperialism

  Democracy Now! |  Listen to the Interview Audio stream  Download mp3  Criticism of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe...

   

• Bush administration lifts North Korea sanctions

  Bush administration lifts sanctions, moves to take North Korea off terrorist list. President Bush said Thursday he will lift...

   

• Exposed: the arms lobbyist in Parliament

  By James Macintyre | A senior arms lobbyist is gaining access to ministers, MPs and peers inside Parliament using a research...

   

• Gitmo Detainee’s Lawyer ‘Not Allowed To Tell Him’ He’s No Longer An ‘Enemy Combatant’

  Think Progress | Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have the right...

   

• Kucinich: We went to Iraq for oil

  Press TV | Rep. Dennis Kucinich has accused the US of forcing Iraq to privatize its oil fields and keeping US troops at war...

   

• Five Myths About the New Wiretapping Law

  By Patrick Radden Keefe | Sometime today, the Senate is likely to approve the most comprehensive overhaul of American surveillance...

   

• How the Pentagon Turned an Interrogation Resistance Program into a Blueprint for Torture

  By Spencer Ackerman | In August 2004, a Defense Dept. panel convened to investigate detainee abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal...

   

• UK uses lung-shredder to kill rebels

  Quqnoos | BRITISH troops have used missiles in Afghanistan which suck the air out of human targets, shred their internal...

   

• A Tragedy Unnoticed By The World

  How conflict exacerbates Somalia’s starvation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says thousands of Somalis are malnourished...

   

• Fortress Britain

  By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad | “The public has to be more alert”, warned one “international terrorism expert” in the...

   

• Report: Iraq social and refugee crisis is worsening

  By Sandy English | According to a report issued last week by the human rights organization Amnesty International, the plight...

   

• New technique can detect biological, chemical and explosive agents

  By Steve Wampler | LIVERMORE, Calif. — Airplane passengers and baggage might be screened one day by a machine under development...

   

• American Envoy Is Linked to Arms Deal Cover-Up

  By ERIC SCHMITT | WASHINGTON — An American ambassador helped cover up the illegal Chinese origins of ammunition that a...

   

• Big Oil’s Big Lie

  By George Monbiot | Of course, it’s not a crime, and it’s hard to see how, in a free society, it could or should become...

   

• Mind-Forged Manacles

  By George Monbiot | Which of these countries has the most prisoners per head of population? Sudan, Syria, China, Burma, Saudi...

   

• “Blood and Oil” an Important Film to See and Share

  ADS | “Blood and Oil” is a very, very well made film that will show you something new even if you already know...

   

• Blackwater, skirting federal law, using cache of AK-47s

  By Joseph Neff | The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private...

   

• Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration’s Measures of Progress in Iraq

  By JAMES GLANZ, New York Times | Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration...

   

• Facing the Truth About the American Voter

  Rick Shenkman, is the author of the just-published Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic...

   

• US to carry on military trials at Gitmo despite ruling

  Hearings for terrorism suspects before US military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay are going ahead despite a Supreme Court ruling...

   

• ONE IN FOUR AMERICANS CALL THEIR WORKPLACE A DICTATORSHIP

  Zogby | UTICA, New York – One out of every four working Americans (25%) describes their workplace as a dictatorship,...