US citizens: insist that BP get no tax break from its damage payments.

Indonesia Is Burning. So Why Is the World Looking Away?

Assad's forces fired missiles at a market and killed at least 40 people. I would expect most of them were civilians.

"Unarmed civilian protection" persuades armed groups in South Sudan to refrain from violence, at least some of the time.

Shaker Aamer has been released from Guantanamo and has returned to Britain.

Rebellious officials in the Pentagon delayed his release for 5 years by refusing to let him go back to the UK.

He is going to sue the British government for complicity in his imprisonment and torture.

He certainly deserves compensation, but if the UK government settles the case to avoid exposure of its wrongs, that will not do justice.