- Savvy authoritarians: Meet the modern strongmen
- Brazilian police arrest Google exec over online videos
- Man sentenced to one year in prison for insulting Turkish president on Facebook
- Assange speaks from via satellite from London, calls for end to 'persecution'--Mocks Obama's calls for freedom of speech while attacking Wikileaks.
- US labels Assange 'enemy of state'
- Putin: Assange case a definite example of double standards, trial politically motivated
- Appeals Court Blocks Indefinite-Detention Ruling
- Americans have a right to see Senate report on 'enhanced interrogation'
- Italy Court Upholds American Convictions--" Italy's highest criminal court on Wednesday upheld the convictions of 23 Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan street as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program, paving the way to possible extradition requests by Italian authorities." NYT
- Taliban-linked Afghan recounts prison abuse--"Mohammad Nasim tells CNN's Anna Coren his torturous story after being accused by the U.S. of involvement with the Taliban."
- No fix for 'Jesus rifles' deploying to Afghanistan
- Troops dying to defend US prestige: Tanner--"Australian troops are dying in Afghanistan to "defend American prestige" and it is difficult to justify continued involvement in the war, former finance minister Lindsay Tanner says."
- Afghanistan bans Pakistan newspapers over Taliban support
- Dead Gitmo detainee was cleared for release in 2009 --"The Guantanamo detainee found dead in his prison cell last weekend had been cleared for release three years ago by an Obama administration task force that concluded that his detention was no longer necessary...."
- Guantanamo prisoner's tragic letter Salon.
- Chronicle of a death foretold--"Latif had placed his faith in the fairness and impartiality of the US legal system and it failed him utterly, inventing new grounds to keep him incarcerated and in the words of the dissenting judge, 'moving the goalposts' in order to ensure that no matter what evidence existed regarding his innocence he would remain behind bars."
- Simulated War Between U.S.-Iran Has Grisly End
- Iran Moves to Isolate Its Citizens Online
- Iran's Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad adviser, jailed
- Iran unveils long-range drone - state TV
- Iran Test-Fires Missiles At Target Near US Naval Drills
- Ahmadinejad tells U.N. that Iran is threatened--And that Israel trying to spook the U.S.
- Vitol trades Iranian fuel oil, skirting sanctions
- Israelis shrug at Netanyahu's urgent warnings on Iran--Bibi has denied accusations that he's trying to influence the US presidential elections.
- Canada's last Iran ambassador: Cutting off Tehran looks like a mistake
- WINEP's Director of Research: U.S. Needs A False Flag to Start A War With Iran
- Be careful, she might hear you--"Attorney-General Nicola Roxon wants unprecedented access to the private lives of Australians, writes Philip Dorling."
- CCTV cameras being used in more than 200 schools changing rooms and toilets across Britain
- ACLU sues to get U.S. agencies' license plate tracking records
- Smoke Screening--"Heaps of federal money, endless bureaucracy, and constant travel delays are the most visible by-products of the Transportation Security Administration. Too bad 'increased safety' doesn't fit on that list."
- Appeals Court Caves to TSA Over Nude Body Scanners
- GOP to TSA: Eleven years after 9/11 attacks, it's time to change
