• Top CIA lawyers to face legal complaints over roles in interrogation program

  A grassroots coalition will file complaints today with the Washington, D.C. bar against two Central Intelligence Agency lawyers...

   

• Wikipedia Censored News of Afghanistan Kidnapping

  THE New York Times worked with Wikipedia to keep news of the kidnapping of one of its reporters in Afghanistan off the online...

   

• Obama Declares Coup “Not Legal” Amid Uncertainty

  Capping a day of mixed signals, U.S. President Barack Obama said late Monday that he considered Sunday’s ouster and...

   

• Met go into denial over G20 policing criticism

  The Metropolitan Police appears to have swept aside criticisms expressed by MPs in a report into the policing of the G20...

   

• The Persecution of Michael Jackson

  Last Thursday, while working on some writing deadlines, I was switching channels on cable.  On CNN they were promoting ...

   

• The astonishing amount of data gathered on every one of us

  Ever wondered how much personal information is held about you? Well, it looks something like this… Stacked over two...

   

• Minister demands Government stop ID cards

  Minister for community safety Fergus Ewing has written to the new UK home secretary Alan Johnson asking for the scheme to...

   

• US admits defeat on opium campaign

  The US has finally acknowledged that its opium eradication campaign in Afghanistan is failing, announcing that it would...

   

• Obama administration preparing order for indefinite detentions

  The Obama administration is drafting an executive order that would give the US president the power to arrest without charge,...

   

• Bagram Detainees Treated “Worse Than Animals”

  An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase...

   

• Labour government forces one million disabled workers to find work

  The Brown Labour government is forcing a million disabled, sick and injured workers off social benefits. The vast majority...

   

• 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...

   

• Elite Iraqi troops in forefront after US pullback

  As Iraqi security services prepare to take back their towns from the Americans on Tuesday, the sharpest arrow in their quiver...

   

• Pilger: A world of fragility and fear

  TS Eliot wrote that the point of any journey was to find out where you came from. As I bore my bulging canvas bag to the...

   

• Michael Jackson Dead

  Pop star Michael Jackson was pronounced dead by doctors this afternoon after arriving at a hospital in LA. Jackson was reported...

   

• The kinder, gentler occupation?

  Phil Aliff, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, analyzes new U.S. rules of engagement governing air power in Afghanistan. DESPITE...

   

• Record bonuses at bailed-out US banks

  Executives at Goldman Sachs were told last week that they could expect to receive their highest ever bonuses this year, according...

   

• Dozens of Civilians Killed as US Attacks Funeral

  Sources involved in the rescue operation following yesterday’s US attack on a South Waziristan funeral procession reported...

   

• Britain’s child poverty disgrace

  Official figures published today show that a quarter of children in London are from jobless households, adding fuel to criticism...

   

• Eavesdropping on Printers

  First, we develop a novel feature design that borrows from commonly used techniques for feature extraction in speech recognition...

   

• 700 doctors demand the removal of WMA president for involvement in torture

  700 doctors from 43 countries sent a letter of protest to the Word Medical Association (WMA), which is considered the WMA’s...

   

• Challenge to BNP’s whites-only rule

  The Equality and Human Rights Commission has challenged the fascist British National Party to address its membership criteria,...

   

• How FBI sought to block Deep Throat the movie

  One was a top FBI investigator, a legend of the Watergate affair. The other was a porn movie that came to be seen as a defining...

   

• Blair WAS involved in Iraq inquiry talks, minister says

  Gordon Brown is to promise that much of the Iraq inquiry will be held in the open in an attempt to avert a damaging Commons...

   

• CIA Looks to Colleges for Future Spies

  To the list of collegiate types — nerds, jocks, Greeks — add one more: spies in training. The government is hoping...