Americas

The 20 damning report findings into CIA’s post-9/11 ‘torture’ programme

The US Senate Intelligence Committee has published its highly anticipated and divisive report into the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme employed after the September 11 attacks. Only the executive summary of the 6,700-page classified report has been published, including its 20 findings. The 20 conclusions are presented below, including particularly […]

The Denial of Religious Freedom Yields Worse Conditions for Women and Atheists

RNS: PRESS RELEASE: In a concise but wide-ranging interview, Brian Grim, president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, discusses the adverse impact for women, atheists and society in general when religious freedom is denied. watch:  Rather than religious freedom being in contradiction with other basic human rights, Grim describes how they all advance or […]

Senator Jay Rockefeller singlehandedly kills Freedom of Information Act reform

http://boingboing.net/: The House unanimously passed a bill that would bring much-needed improvements to the Freedom of Information Act; the Senate had bi-partisan support for it, too — but outgoing Sen Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) singlehandedly killed the bill in a closed-door committee meeting. He offered vague, bullshitty excuses for this, citing nonspecific issues […]

How ISIS Drives Muslims From Islam

NY Times: THE Islamic State has visibly attracted young Muslims from all over the world to its violent movement to build a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But here’s what’s less visible — the online backlash against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, by young Muslims declaring […]