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The Obama administration has fought tooth and nail to keep the details of its surveillance activities hidden from the public. For years it has insisted that its snooping on Americans' phone and email communications fell perfectly within the law (that is, the extremely...

Charlie Savage in the New York Times, Election May Decide When Interrogation Amounts to Torture: In one of his first acts, President Obama issued an executive order restricting interrogators to a list of nonabusive tactics approved in theArmy Field Manual. Even as he...

In the news section today, it has been revealed through declassified documents that WikiLeaks Julian Assange has been designated an enemy of the state by the US military, a legal classification also assigned to al-Qaeda and which could allow Washington to kill or...

This heartbreaking trailer gives a short preview of the new documentary "Tears of Gaza," from the Norwegian director, Vibeke Løkkeberg. The film will premier at the Varsity Theater in Davis, CA on September 30th, and it documents the bombing of Gaza in 2008 – 2009 by...

On Friday, Patrick Clawson, the director of research at the pro-Israel think-tank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, suggested that the US should work covertly and through international means of force to provoke Iran to take the first shot against the US...

Many in official Washington are expressing outrage over suspicions that Iraq is allowing neighboring Iran to use its airspace to fly military equipment to the Syrian regime. Iraq has denied the allegations and asked the US to provide proof that the flights contain...

Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, according to a piece by Nazila Fathi at Foreign Policy, has been perpetually harassed by the Iranian regime, which hates her political activism and dissent. She now lives a life in exile, still fighting to expose Tehran's human rights...

A new report from the Stanford and NYU schools of law has found that the US drone war in Pakistan is "counterproductive" and "terrorizes" the civilian population. Read the report here. See this video below accompanying the release of the report. Update: The...