• William Hague represents Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in Washington

  Foreign secretary William Hague will represent the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in the US today as he makes...

   

• Obama vs. the iPad

  President Obama’s disdain for new media has become so consistent that it is hard to dismiss as mere posturing. This is...

   

• What Does Does Facebook-McDonalds Deal Mean?

  By Rick Whiting, CRN A reported deal with fast-food giant McDonald’s could mean that Facebook is setting itself up to compete...

   

• New York Police Defuse Car Bomb in Times Square

  

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  Tourists were evacuated from Time Square and the surrounding area as police officers dismantled a car bomb, which was discovered...

   

• US cybersecurity plan poses new war threats

  By Tom Eley | President Barack Obama announced on Friday the creation of a new “cyber czar” position. The Cybersecurity...

   

• Obama Nominates Polluter Lawyer To Run Environment Division

  President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation’s largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation’s...

   

• High court rejects claims against Ashcroft

  By Joan Biskupic | WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Monday threw out a Pakistani man’s civil rights...

   

• KBR, Halliburton Accused in Investor Suit of ‘Reign of Terror’

  By Cary O’Reilly | KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., two of the largest contractors to the U.S. military, were accused by...

   

• The Politics of Excusing Torture In The Name of National Security

  Allow me to share some analysis about the way things work in Washington. President Obama’s flip-flop on his agreement...

   

• CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents

  The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation...

   

• How U.S. Officials Circumvented the Bill of Rights

  By Jacob G. Hornberger | In another embrace of President Bush’s war-on-terrorism policies, President Obama has announced...

   

• Suspected war criminal to lead U.S. forces in Afghanistan

  On July 22 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled “No blood, no foul” about American torture practices at three...

   

• Senate Hears Testimony On Torture Policy

  A key Senate subcommittee is set to hear testimony today on the torture policies of the Bush administration. The hearing,...

   

• Populism is Not a Style, It’s a People’s Rebellion Against Corporate Power

  When I lived in Washington, DC, in the 1970s, I got a call from a friend of mine who worked for the Congressional Research...

   

• Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases

  As lawmakers amped up the outcry against releasing Guantánamo “terrorists in our neighborhoods,” France agreed...

   

• Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation torture

  By Greg Miller | Reporting from Washington — As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the...

   

• ‘Smart’ cameras doing job of human eyes

  The surveillance cameras at Big Y, a Massachusetts grocery chain, are not just passively recording customers and staff. They’re...

   

• Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion

  By Noah Shachtman | The Pentagon wants to spend just over $50 billion on classified programs next year, newly-released Defense...

   

• Pentagon eyes new anti-missile technology

  WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defence efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programmes aimed...

   

• Documents shoot holes in Cheney’s theories on torture

  What a difference an election makes. Our national position has now shifted from “we don’t torture” to “we...

   

• 22 protesters arrested at Obama speech

  Former Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes and 21 other protesters were arrested this morning when they refused to...

   

• Groups fights bill that keeps biolab secrets

  By Laura Elder  | Open government advocates are lining up to fight a bill they say would cripple the public’s right to...

   

• Pelosi caught in lie over CIA torture report

  By Bob Turner | Washington – A report by the Central Intelligence Agency revealed that now Speaker of the House, Rep....

   

• Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases

  A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be...

   

• USA using Patriot Act against its own citizens

  Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic....