Covert US strikes against alleged militants in Yemen escalated during the Arab Spring, and are now at the same rate as the CIA’s controversial drone campaign in Pakistan, a new study by the Bureau shows.
Thanks to NDAA, the Department of Homeland Security and police forces label anyone who they disagree with -- or who disagrees with government policies -- as "terrorists".
This episode of The Agenda discusses the US-UK relationship. In the last 2 decades Britain has never opposed any aspect of American foreign policy.
Exposed: Inside the NSA’s largest and most expansive secret domestic spy center in Bluffdale, Utah
Written by Amy Goodman Friday, 23 March 2012A new exposé in Wired Magazine reveals details about how the National Security Agency is quietly building the largest spy center in the country in Bluffdale, Utah, as part of a secret NSA surveillance program codenamed "Stellar Wind."
Nov. 13: Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and NBC terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann join msnbc’s Ed Schultz to debate whether New York City’s security will be compromised if alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohhamed and four other suspected terrorist are given a trial in the state.
Sam Seder: Obama continues disastrous Bush-era foreign policies
Written by CP Editor Tuesday, 20 March 2012During the Bush years, Americans weren't shy to express their anger over the former administration's policies regarding people they deemed to be "terrorists."
Investigative reporter Jason Leopold: Obama administration putting freedom of information in jeopardy?
Written by Lucy Kafanov Saturday, 17 March 2012On Wednesday the Senate held a hearing to discuss the Freedom of Information Act.
The Extradition Act of 2003 has over the last few years come under renewed and increased scrutiny through a number of different cases where UK citizens are being sent to the US to be tried in US courts for criminal offences that would not be considered as incriminating in the United Kingdom.
Video: Andy Worthington discusses the US-UK special relationship on Russia Today, involving war, torture, extradition and Shaker Aamer
Written by Andy Worthington Friday, 16 March 2012Yesterday, I was pleased to be invited to discuss the “special relationship” between the US and the UK on Russia Today, which was timely, of course, as David Cameron was visiting Barack Obama, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to discuss how the “special relationship,” which transcends party politics, seems, on recent evidence, to be based on warmongering, complicity in torture, and a shared belief in the shredding of long-established laws.
March 09, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- UKIP Leader Nigel Farage demands that the UK break treaty with US.
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International human rights breaches - State accountability v State immunity
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Extradited to a future of torture: the reality of solitary confinement in America
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Spying and Entrapment
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The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
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Help Lynne Stewart, civil rights lawyer for Muslim defendants, stay alive
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Why haven't you signed the Shaker Aamer petition?
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