Australia's "moral case for coal" was developed by a PR flack for the Koch brothers as a last-ditch attempt to keep humanity headed towards maximal climate mayhem.

Just after University of Washington Center for Human Rights sued the CIA about a possibly US-supported massacre in El Salvador, someone stole its computer which held testimony from survivors of the massacre.

The article does not say whether they had a backup copy elsewhere. They are afraid that the stolen data could be used for reprisals. It is too bad they did not encrypt the data with GPG.

They did have backups, but apparently did not keep the files encrypted.

A UN special rapporteur takes governments including the US to task for demonizing whistleblowers they ought to protect.

As the UK fawns on China's repressive rulers, one British lawyer confronted participants in the expensive support rally that Chinese officials organized in London.

If you want to see the video, please don't let it lead you to run nonfree software (Flash or JS code) or be used by Facebook.

Obama vetoed the National Defense Authorization Act because of provisions that would interfere with closing Guantanamo prison.

We often use "Guantanamo prison" as a stand-in for the unjust and un-American practice of imprisonment without trial. It is not clear whether, when Obama talks about "closing Guantanamo prison", he means ending imprisonment without trial, or just moving it elsewhere.