Israel carries out court-approved torture. One example, that of Samer Arbeed, provides an illustration of a practice that has continued for decades.

US and Philippine unions are trying to work together, since US companies are trying to play those workers against each other.

Some of the bullshitter's campaign fund-raisers look suspiciously like cons.

Why wouldn't they be? We know he's a conman.

UN special rapporteurs condemn Queensland's laws that repress protest.

Glenn Greenwalrd shows that the DOJ inspector general found that the FBI repeatedly lied to the FISA court to get permission to spy on Carter Page during the 2016 election. Then he explains how the liars get away with such practices: former military and intelligence officials make a second career as pundits on TV.

Given how much ordinary thugs lie, it should not be surprising that federal cops and spooks lie too.

Poor United States: battleground between a conman running a gang that blatantly spits on truth, and the "deep state" gang that also won't hesitate to lie.

Some Republican senators who used to defend state surveillance almost ad lib are starting to see the danger.