To follow-up on yesterday's observations about the prolonged forced nudity to which Bradley Manning has been subjected the last two days: brig officials now confirm…
JUAN GONZALEZ: A British judge ruled this morning that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape…
Throughout this year I've devoted substantial attention to WikiLeaks, particularly in the last four weeks as calls for its destruction…
(updated below – Update II [Fri.]) In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how…
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Cancún, Mexico, at the U.N. Climate Change Conference. In a moment, we’ll turn to the talks here in…
After Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, exposing the lies, brutality and inhumanity that drove America's role in the Vietnam War, President Nixon and Henry…
The war in Afghanistan was escalated twice in 2009 by President Obama and, with it, the death toll of Afghans and US…
Ever since he was released from Guantanamo in February after six years of due-process-less detention and brutal torture, Binyam Mohamed has been…
Today I interviewed Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the lead counsel in the pending litigation against AT&T, alleging that…
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