• CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses

  The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks...

   

• Gitmo suicide had been prisoners’ representative

  Almost five months before he was found dead at Guantanamo Bay, a detainee volunteered to represent prisoners in talks with...

   

• Afghan Violence Hit ‘All Time High’ Last Week

  By Jason Ditz | General David Petraeus today announced that violence in Afghanistan had hit its highest level since the 2001...

   

• New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins

  By Bill Van Auken  | Confirmed Wednesday as President Barack Obama’s new commander for the widening war in Afghanistan...

   

• Human Rights Expert Condemns Child ‘Slavery’ In Haiti

  Thousands of Haitian unpaid child labourers are trapped in a “modern form of slavery,” an independent United Nations...

   

• Spying Teachers – MI5 Wants Recruits

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

   

• Abuse at British embassy investigation “fundamentally flawed”

  An investigation into abuse by private staff at the British embassy in Baghdad was “fundamentally flawed”, according...

   

• CIA Director’s claims reinforce torture reality

  It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected...

   

• New Phone Directory Invades Privacy

  Pay a pound for faceless corporation to have your phone number Technology but used for evil? In a potential step towards...

   

• A New Spy in the Sky

  At first glance, there was nothing special about the blimp floating high above the cars and crowd at this year’s Indy...

   

• £400m biometric-passport contract awarded

  The UK government has awarded the contract for creating the next generation of British passports to secure-document specialist...