The funded campaign to deny global heating is spreading lies pre-emptively, to undermine the coming IPCC report.

It is erroneous to call these denialists "skeptics", because they cling stubbornly to their pre-chosen conclusion in the teeth of the facts. Many of them do this because they are paid to.

US citizens: Call on EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and Obama to reopen the investigations into environmental damage from fracking.

Released government documents show that the US uses "border protection" as an excuse to search people's laptops when it wants to investigate them for other reasons but has no legal grounds.

In Guantanamo, visiting journalists are brought on tours of show-cells, the guards say that force-feeding is voluntary, prisoners are called "detainees", and even sketches of them are forbidding.

I see more Orwell than Kafka in this. It is the most horrible evil, disguised with all the ability of the modern PR industry.

The FBI makes a practice of asking companies to put back doors in proprietary software.