The UK's deal for ending tax havens will help investigate specific companies but won't be of much use for preventing corrupt cash flows.

A soldier who fought in Afghanistan says the US must try hard to get some sort of agreement as it withdraws troops.

Unfortunately, the Taliban have no reason to think they need to agree on anything.

US telecom companies operating outside the US have given the NSA back doors.

John le Carre, a former spymaster, explains how they manipulate politicians as well as the agents they run, and how the UK's secret courts would be unnecessary except to cover up torture, kidnaping and killing.

Just now, as the NSA says "If you knew what we know, you would let us monitor everything about everyone", we must challenge them "Prove it or shut up."

The Australian state has removed 13,000 aboriginal children from their families, accusing various kinds of mistreatment or neglect, but without trying to help the parents much if at all.

The population of Australia is around 23 million, so the aboriginal population is around 600,000. If 1/4 of them are children, that means almost 10% of these children have been taken away from their families. That's not an entire "generation", but it is a large fraction.