- After 9/11, CIA Secretly Turned Some Gitmo Prisoners Into Double Agents
- Two terror suspects sue Poland over 'CIA torture'
- British major threw laptop with sensitive Iraq photos from ferry
- Speaking against the NDAA
- The Government's Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained
- How Surveillance-State Insiders Try to Discredit NSA Critics—"Journalists opposed to the surveillance state are accused of sensationalism and withholding context. But unlike our critics, we're eager for the whole truth to out."
- Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden WaPo
- Guardian editor defends publication of Snowden files—"Rusbridger also told lawmakers that the Guardian had published only 1 percent of the 58,000 files it had received from Snowden." WaPo
- Guardian Australia fiercely defends its reporting on spy agencies—"Attacks on the publication of stories based on NSA documents threaten to shut down debate on the issues that matter."
- War On Democracy: Spain And Japan Move To Criminalize Protests
- Japan: The new Uzbekistan of press freedom in Asia—And protests against secrecy law is an 'act of terrorism.'
- Justices to look at claims over Bush-era protest—"The lawsuit claims the two agents violated anti-Bush protesters' free-speech rights by having police move them farther away from where the president was eating dinner than some pro-Bush demonstrators."
- United Nations counterterrorism official launches investigation into NSA surveillance
- French Lawmakers Propose Warrantless Access to Live User Data From ISPs and Hosting Sites
- Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens
- Timor-Leste spy case: 'witness held, and lawyer's office raided by ASIO'—"A first-hand witness to alleged Australian spying against Timor-Leste in 2004 has been detained and searched at his Canberra home, according to a prominent human rights lawyer and academic, Frank Brennan."
- How politics, spying, and censorship shape the Web
- Trial Opens in Case Challenging Scholar's Placement on TSA Watchlist—"Is Rahinah Ibrahim a Malaysian jihadist, or the victim of misguided bureaucrats who erroneously placed the 48-year-old woman on a U.S. terror watchlist, preventing the scholar and mother of four from re-entering the United States?"
- Who Is Watching the Watch Lists?—"[T]he federal government's main terrorist watch list has grown to at least 700,000 people, with little scrutiny over how the determinations are made or the impact on those marked with the terrorist label." NYT
- Abolish the TSA
- Tunisia protesters torch ruling party office
- Moscow police arrest 'armed Islamists' in raids
- Britain to tackle 'Islamist extremism' after soldier's murder
- UN implicates Bashar al-Assad in Syria war crimes
- Hezbollah: Commander 'assassinated' outside Beirut home
- Yasser Arafat 'was not poisoned' - leaked French report
- Pakistani party "outs" suspected CIA station chief in fury at drone strike
- Identity and Exile—"Al Jazeera's Matthew Cassel examines why so many American Jews defend Israeli policies regardless of the issue or cost."
- Ukraine PM Mykola Azarov warns of coup in making
- Ukraine protests grow as president responds
- Ukraine's crisis is getting so serious that protesters used a bulldozer against police WaPo
- Ukraine unrest: Nato condemns crackdown on protesters
- Transparency International slams Ukraine as ‘most corrupt in Europe’
- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrives in China amid tense airspace dispute
- People's Bank of China hints at retreat on dollar purchases—"Reserves build-up no longer in China's favour, central bank deputy governor says, amid talk that the yuan's trading band could be widened."
- China punishes 20,000 officials for being too bureaucratic
- China Claims Victory in Scrubbing Internet Clean—"The Chinese government has declared victory in cleaning up what it considers rumors, negativity and unruliness from online discourse, while critics say the moves have suppressed criticism of the government and ruling Communist Party."
- China is Cheating the World Student Rankings System—"Enough is enough: Beijing must supply national data to assessors and not simply the results of a small minority of elite students."
- Tensions ease in Thailand as police remove barriers
- North Korea powerbroker 'dismissed'
- Tibetan immolations: Desperation as world looks away
- Most Americans think US should 'mind its own business' abroad, survey finds
- In God we trust, maybe, but not each other—"You can take our word for it. Americans don't trust each other anymore." WaPo
- Tom Corbett Went From Establishment Republican to Tea Party Ally. Bad Move.
- John Nichols: Rep. Trey Radel won't be joining the half a million Americans jailed for drug offenses
- Gov. Walker Urges Parents to Skip Toys and Send the Christmas Money to Him
- Judge hits 'dark money' group with $260,000 fine for failing to disclose campaign spending
- Corporate 'Dark Money' To Get Free Pass After SEC Drops Disclosure Proposal
- Sierra Club On Dark Money Changes: Don't Toss Whole Bushel Over Few Bad Apples
