privacy US requests for secret spying warrants rose to nearly 2K in 2011, and not a single one was rejected Xeni Jardin

politics America's decade of reverse-nation-building at home Cory Doctorow

Comics Brian Wood's DMZ: a critical look back Cory Doctorow

politics Tony Blair channels Ronald Reagan, "doesn't remember" sending dissidents to Libya for torture Cory Doctorow

Business US government orders UK carriers to extend no-fly list Brits travelling to non-US destinations, even on flights that don't pass through US airspace Cory Doctorow

short Bruce Schneier hands former TSA boss his ass Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Matt Ruff discusses his alternate history novel The Mirage Cory Doctorow

police FBI says paying cash for coffee is a sign of terrorist intent Cory Doctorow

politics North Carolina town still protesting CIA rendition program, ten years later Xeni Jardin

books Matt Ruff's The Mirage: spectacular alternate history of Arabian manifest destiny Cory Doctorow

war Report: North Carolina aviation company handled extraordinary rendition flights for CIA Xeni Jardin

human rights Testament of humanitarian aid worker who spent seven years being held and tortured in Gitmo Cory Doctorow

law DOJ to America: we won't reveal the circumstances under which you can be assassinated by us Cory Doctorow

corruption Memoir of a child kidnapped to Guantanamo Bay, tortured for six years, and released Cory Doctorow

happy mutants The Homeland Directive: taut technothriller for the paranoid era Cory Doctorow

law ACLU: FBI practicing racial profiling on an "industrial scale" Cory Doctorow

Action The FBI and the War On Us: Racial profiling on an "industrial scale" Xeni Jardin

war Awlaki's 16-year-old son killed by US drone Xeni Jardin

politics Canadian government advice defines abortionists as terrorists Cory Doctorow

Civlib European Freedom Not Fear demonstration in Brussels this Saturday Cory Doctorow