Now that the CIA has admitted responsibility for the coup in Iran that toppled it democratic government in 1953, the Iranian Parliament has voted to sue the US.

There is plenty of justification for this suit, in the abstract; but Iran's current theocratic tyranny is part of the damage, and a suit is not going to fix that. Meanwhile, is there any court where such a suit could be heard and a judgment enforced?

The New York Thug Department arbitrarily labels some mosques as "terrorist" and investigates anyone who goes into them.

An imprisoned Iranian blogger on hunger strike is getting ill.

Egypt's military rulers seem to be framing arrested protesters in order to "prove" that the Muslim Brotherhood is terrorist.

The heroism of Manning and Snowden will mean nothing if the debate about how to judge them distracts us from the central issue: our government is trashing the constitution with massive surveillance.