• Sri Lankan Humanitarian Crisis Deserves Attention

  By Amitabh Pal | The United States is finally paying attention to the massive humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka. The civil...

   

• Obama, Top Officials Unite Against Torture Probe

  By by Jason Ditz | Top officials from both parties have spoken out against the notion of an independent probe into the Bush-era...

   

• Muslims in fear of police terror

  Muslim leaders in Lancashire said on Thursday that the arrest, detention and subsequent release without charge of 12 people...

   

• Torture Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11

  By MARJORIE COHN  | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution,...

   

• Street View nod prompts call for privacy watchdog reform

  By Chris Williams | Frustrated by years of alleged intransigence in dealing with complaints about privacy-infringing new...

   

• Rights group: Pentagon to release new prisoner abuse photos

  WASHINGTON, April 24 (Xinhua) — The Pentagon will release “a substantial number” of new photos that show...

   

• Paying billions for our database state

  It is cost rather than privacy concerns that will save us from Labour’s megalomaniac surveillance schemes – a point...