The UK intends to quash a torture case using a new secret court procedure, in which the state can present evidence to the judge while concealing it from the torture victims and their lawyers.

The government's witnesses, testifying in secret, could lie like a Clapper, confident that no one will have the chance to investigate to find facts to put up against their testimony.

Judge Demands US Gov't Hand Over Secret Docs Detailing Gitmo Torture.

I understand the ICRC's reason for not publishing its reports on how states treat prisoners. I'm not convinced that the ICRC's reputation for confidentiality will be significantly impugned if a state publishes the report that the IRCR made about that state.

Leaked IPCC Report Links Climate Change to (coming) Global Food Scarcity. The problem is already affecting food production in the US.

US citizens: call for enforcement of the law to protect marine mammals from fishing.

US citizens: call on the EPA to judge the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline honestly and not join the State Department's greenwash.