Amnesty International will sue the UK about probable phone call snooping.

The UK government has created excuses to ignore such cases by hearing the evidence secretly.

The K Street Perversion of Cost-Benefit Analysis.

Uri Avnery: Kerry is making the mistake of taking Israel's obsolete "security concerns" seriously.

The American Studies Association voted to join the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

This follows a debate at a meeting in which over 80% of the speakers (randomly chosen from those who asked to speak) supported the boycott.

The full membership is now voting on the resolution.

Senator Warren rejected the idea of formulating the issue of Social Security in terms of how much to cut, and proposed ways to fund increasing it.

Cutting social security is a right-wing idea that most Americans reject. Please don't grant it a sort of legitimacy by calling it the "center". It is only "central" between the two right-wing major parties.