- Guantanamo detainees' hunger strikes will no longer be disclosed by U.S. military WaPo
- Jailed Bin Laden doctor Shakil Afridi refuses to stay silent—"The Pakistani doctor who is accused of helping the American Central Intelligence Agency track down former al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, says he is being denied his right to a fair trial."
- The US killed my brother with a drone. I want to know why
- World leaders join singing crowds for Mandela memorial
- Meet The Mandela RINOs: Republicans Who Lost Their R-Card For Praising Mandela
- Newt Gingrich to Conservatives: 'What Would You Have Done?'—"A message about Nelson Mandela that conservatives sorely need to hear."
- Pickens County Sheriff will not lower flag for Nelson Mandela—"Nelson Mandela did great things for his country and was a brave man but he was not an AMERICAN!!!"
- Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to skip Mandela memorial, citing cost
- Ukraine's capital Kiev gripped by huge pro-EU demonstration
- World boxing champion Vitali Klitschko leads Ukraine's protests, hopes to become next president
- Ukraine police move on protesters and opposition party
- Amnesty International suspects British intelligence surveillance, will take legal action against UK government
- London's biggest university bans student protests
- Shop owner quizzed over 'Bernard Manning-style' Nelson Mandela gags—"Neil Phillips furious after being DNA swabbed and finger-printed over close to the knuckle web comments about the late former South African president." Punishing thoughtcrime
- Edward Snowden to give evidence to EU parliament, says MEP—"British Conservatives oppose video appearance by NSA whistleblower, which Green MEP says could happen this year."
- British intelligence anxious to catch Snowden in Russia - investigative journalist
- Smog promotes equality!—"Air pollution also makes people funnier and smarter, a government-controlled outlet claims." Salon
- Our Smog Is A Major Defensive Advantage On The Battlefield—With this much spin, the smog should have been blow away already.
- Smog set to lift in eastern China, but experts say solution is a long way off
- Thai PM Yingluck to dissolve parliament and call elections
- China expresses regret over South Korea air defense zone
- Canada to claim north pole as its own—"UN submission will seek to redefine Canada's continental shelf to capture more Arctic oil and gas resources."
- Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets—"How two alienated, angry geeks broke the story of the year."
- Six months after NSA story broke, Snowden looks even more patriotic
- Saving the Net from the surveillance state: Glenn Greenwald speaks up
- An open letter from Carl Bernstein to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger—"You are being called to testify at a moment when governments in Washington and London seem intent on erecting the most serious (and self-serving) barriers against legitimate news reporting – especially of excessive government secrecy – we have seen in decades."
- Thousands protest in Japan against new state secrets bill
- Russian news agency RIA Novosti closed down—"The state-owned Voice of Russia radio station has also been closed. The decree was effective immediately."
- Coalition accused of organising 'assault on ABC' over spying revelations—"Labor frontbencher Brendan O'Connor says government is working with News Corp to bully the public broadcaster."
- Xbox Live among game services targeted by US and UK spy agencies—"NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life."
- NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say—"They add that they are surprised President Obama has not visited the agency to show his support." WaPo
- NSA spying hurts business of large U.S. hardware makers
- Twitter, Facebook and more demand sweeping changes to US surveillance—"AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public's trust in the internet."
- Jon Stewart on the benefits of NSA surveillance: If you like your spy, you can keep your spy
- Int'l call for democracy in digital age—"Leading newspapers of 32 countries including The Daily Star, 560 authors from 83 countries and several Nobel Laureates have issued an international appeal against mass surveillance."
- Bill Clinton says security does not justify espionage
- Chinese hackers spied on Europeans before G20 meeting: researcher
- 'Let's be honest, we eavesdrop too': former French foreign minister on NSA spying claims
- The US has access to Swedish intelligence—"The United States has been allowed access to information obtained by Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) through cable interception since 2011, top-secret documents obtained by Swedish Television show."
- Canada set up spy posts for U.S., new Snowden document shows
- Inside Canada's top-secret billion-dollar spy palace—"While the Harper government is preaching government austerity, it is spending almost $1.2 billion on a new Ottawa headquarters for a little-known military spy agency. It's the most expensive Canadian government building ever constructed."
