The OECD says that new coal-fired power plants are the "most urgent" threat to the world's future.

Americans: Don't listen to government officials who hype the "danger" of terrorism in the US. You're in a lot more danger from lightning or your bathtub.

Kenya has imposed real-time face-recognition tracking in its major cities.

And all internet users are required to identify themselves.

The absolute power that a torturer has over a prisoner leads to cruelty without bounds. Apologists excuse this cruelty on the grounds that torturers were "obeying orders".

That was no excuse for Nazis, and it's no excuse for the CIA. The US must prosecute the Bush regime's torturers, up to and including Bush.

How the US "anti-terrorism" apparatus applies itself to criminalizing dissent.