We need to end the War on Drugs, and not just for marijuana.

A proposed giant coal mine in Borneo could cause deforestation locally, wiping out orangutans (and many other species), but the revenge on the rest of the world will take the form of global heating and ocean acidification.

Saudi Arabia is funding a new group of Islamist Sunni rebels in Syria, this time excluding al Qa'ida.

This exclusion of al Qa'ida removes one reason why the US would oppose it, but they would seek to oppress Shi'ite, Christian and secular Syrians with a tyranny comparable to that of Saudi Arabia.

MPs ordered the heads of UK surveillance organizations to testify in Parliament, and squandered the opportunity by giving them easy questions.

The spymasters told us nothing, just repeated their usual bogus arguments in favor of spying on everyone.

The UK intends to quash a torture case using a new secret court procedure, in which the state can present evidence to the judge while concealing it from the torture victims and their lawyers.

The government's witnesses, testifying in secret, could lie like a Clapper, confident that no one will have the chance to investigate to find facts to put up against their testimony.