The UK may sneak secretly into a ground war in Iraq using commando groups, while imposing new secrecy rules to thwart democracy.

Australia has ordered some sort of "preventative detention" for people associated in some way with an alleged terror plot. Everyone is forbidden to publish any information about what is going on, including (it appears) the names of the people imprisoned.

Are those people's friends talking about their absence?

Republicans in Georgia are blocking 51,000 voter registrations, apparently because they are from minority groups.

The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking.

A courageous Australian MP calls for former prime minister Howard to be prosecuted by the ICC for starting a war based on lies.

Hear, hear!