Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment.

He got a far longer sentence than others convicted of espionage; perhaps because Manning gave information, not secretly to an enemy, but publicly to the people that the US government betrays every day.

On the implications of Assad's apparent poison gas attack.

The fact that jihadis are fighting Assad makes it hard to see a way to help the rebels without potentially bringing to power those who are worse.

NSA gathered thousands of Americans' e-mails before court ordered it to revise its tactics.

British thugs have killed thousands of prisoners since 1969, the last time a thug was punished for doing that.

Worse, relatives of the victims who campaigned for justice were subject to secret surveillance by thugs defending their buddies. But they still say, "if you're innocent, you have nothing to fear."

Force-feeding prisoners who are prepared to fast to death solves nothing.

If they doubt whether prisoners really meant to order "don't feed me", why not just ask them now?