• ID cards and the snooper state

  IT IS simply wrong of James Hall, CEO of the Identity & Passport Service, to suggest that the personal information stored...

   

• Big Brother in the electronic age

  WE’RE a big country so I guess it’s understandable that not only is Big Brother watching — but now it’s...

   

• US Troops Hiding in Iraqi Homes

  A few words from U.S. troops in Iraq, all quoted in Chapter 1 of Dahr Jamail’s brilliant new book “The Will to...

   

• Guantánamo Bay: the inside story

  Six months ago this week President Obama, on his second day in office, promised to close the Guantánamo detention camp within...

   

• China’s police-state

  John Chan | The Chinese regime’s ongoing police-military suppression of unrest in the north-western province of Xinjiang...

   

• Israeli hires Internet soldiers

  Straight out of Avigdor Lieberman’s Foreign Ministry: a new Internet Fighting Team! Israeli students and demobilized soldiers...

   

• U.S. carrying out “targeted killings”

  Media reports recently exposed efforts by the Bush administration to create a CIA “assassination squad” so secret...

   

• Extent of Iraqis’ torture revealed

  The public inquiry into the death of Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa in British army custody and the torture of six other...

   

• CIA ordered to speed up release of torture report

  On Wednesday, the Federal judge overseeing the American Civil Liberty Union’s Freedom of Information Act request for CIA...

   

• Bush, Cheney knew they were violating law

  Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good...

   

• Freedom of Information Act to be extended

  The Freedom of Information Act looks set to be extended to include four new bodies. The government has published its response...

   

• Obama on slavery

  President Obama slowly walked across the grounds of Cape Coast Castle, a slave outpost in Ghana where hundreds of thousands...

   

• EU justice ministers call for more data protection

  Stockholm – The European Union must balance its attempts to gather more security information on EU citizens with the...

   

• Indians to get biometric ID cards

   The Indian government plans to give all of its 1.2 billion citizens biometric ID cards, and Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani...

   

• Probe Into Bush Policies Urged

  President Barack Obama has been reluctant to probe Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies, but his Democratic allies...

   

• Stop the War Coalition barred from Downing Street

  Anti-war campaigners were refused access to Downing Street yesterday to deliver a letter calling for troops to be pulled...

   

• Politicians cost public £500 million each year

  Britain’s politicians apparently cost the taxpayer £500million a year. The number of political professionals has grown...

   

• £24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls

  The Home Office has revealed the multimillion-pound cost of monitoring the UK’s communications. Home Office policing...

   

• IBM biometrics ID cards contract to last 7 years

  IBM’s contract to supply technology for ID cards will last seven years, despite the possibility that a change in government...

   

• Obama Admin Will Not Probe Afghan War Crimes

  Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war...

   

• 41 Journalists Jailed in Iran

  The press freedom organization Reporters Without Borders says it is concerned by what it calls the growing repression of...

   

• Cheney ‘ordered CIA to hide plan’

  Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US...

   

• Private security contractors lack accountability

  A recent shootout in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar that left 10 people dead is helping to focus attention on the issue...

   

• Protest in London over ‘rigged’ Iranian election

  Green flags and banners fly as a crowd of 2,000 or so demonstrators chant anti-Iranian regime slogans. Many pump their fists...

   

• G8 leaders fail to reach agreement on global crisis

  China, France, Russia challenge supremacy of US dollar The leaders of the G8 group of major industrialized countries lined...