The Los Angeles Airport shooter has been accused of "terrorism".

This attack does seem to be premeditated murder, but I think it is stretching the term "terrorism" to apply it here. Stretching strong words such as "terrorism" is a form of inflation that devalues them.

Libyan dissident Ziad Hashem was imprisoned without trial in the UK, apparently based on information that Libyan torturers extracted from Abd-el-Hakim Belhaj after the UK and US delivered him to them.

If extraditing Abd-el-Hakim Belhaj secretly without the usual hearings was "approved by ministers", it demonstrates that that is insufficient as a safeguard.

Billionaire Polluters has found a large new oil field in the Gulf of Mexico.

Shall we celebrate?

2013 was filled with extreme weather events.

211 Journalists in World's Jails in 2013. The worst country is Turkey.