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‘Lawfare’ and the CIA’s drone war worries

American journalist Spencer Ackerman, in collaboration with documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, just released a document related to the US drone...

Clive Stafford Smith

The politics of fear, with its foundation in lies, is an effective way of manipulating any electorate. Perhaps it has never been so effectively...

Much has been said in the past few weeks about the sudden takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. For all the money spent and blood spilled by the...

On November 16, the case of Bilal Abdul Kareem came on for argument before the Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. The claim made by the...

The first volume of former President Barack Obama’s memoirs, A Promised Land, has recently been published. Most of the commentary about these...