Ecuador Grants Assange Asylum, Respecting Human Rights, Despite Threats From UK
By Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian | Op-Ed
Fight Over Closing of Illinois Supermax Ends 14 Years of Prisoners' Silence in Solitary Confinement
By Yana Kunichoff and Jesse Menendez, Truthout and Vocalo | Report
Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad: How Two Administrations and Both Parties Made Illegality the American Way of Life
By Alfred McCoy, TomDispatch | News Analysis
US Walks Back Terrorist Claims Against High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah
By Jason Leopold, Truthout | Report
Romney's Death Squad Ties: Bain Launched With Millions From Oligarchs Behind Salvadoran Atrocities
By Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW! | Video Report
General Petraeus and the Drone War
By Richard Sale, Truthout | Report
Understanding the Standoff in Mali
By Giorgio Cafiero, Foreign Policy in Focus | News Analysis
In the Shadow of Paraguay's Coup: Social Movements Mobilize for Democracy
By Benjamin Dangl, Truthout | Report
UN Should Get Rid of Cholera Epidemic That It Brought to Haiti
By Mark Weisbrot, McClatchy-Tribune | Report
Were the Atomic Bombings Necessary?
By David Krieger, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Critical Mass for Real Food
By Anim Steel, Yes! | Op-Ed
Congressional Probe Reveals Cover-Up of "Auschwitz-Like" Conditions at US-Funded Afghan Hospital
By Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy NOW! | Video
Emails From ALEC Member Russell Pearce Show Anti-Immigrant Law May Have Been Racially Motivated
By Laura Steigerwald, PR Watch | Report
The Bomb and the Drone: The Grim Reaper Keeps Taking Its Toll
By Ed Kinane, Truthout | Op-Ed![]()
Accounts of Syria Rebels Executing Prisoners Raise New Human Rights Concerns
By Hannah Allam and Austin Tice, McClatchy Newspapers | Report
US Intervention Continues to Undermine Egyptian Revolution
By Suzanne Adely, Corinna Mullin and Azadeh Shahshahani, Truthout | News Analysis
Paraguay's Bitter Harvest: Monsanto and Rio Tinto Reap Benefits From Coup Government
By Benjamin Dangl, Toward Freedom | News Analysis
Trafficked Into Tragedy: Abuse of Immigrant Workers In Afghanistan and Iraq
By Shreeya Sinha , New York Times News Service | News Analysis
US Policing: Institutionalizing Brutality?
By Shihab Rattansi, Al Jazeera English | News Analysis
Democracy and Slaughter in Burma: Gold Rush Overrides Human Rights
By Ramzy Baroud, The Palestine Chronicle | News Analysis
Police Killings of People of Color a Systemic Problem
By Staff, The Real News Network | Video
The Greatest Crimes Against Humanity Are Perpetrated by People Just Doing Their Jobs
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig | Op-Ed
Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
By Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch | Op-Ed
Truthout FOIA Exposes Forceful Drugging of Detainees
By Alyona Minkovski, The Alyona Show | Interview and Video![]()
"Under Tents": International Campaign Launch for Housing in Haiti
By Staff, Other Worlds | Announcement

A Primer on the Colonialism of Israel's Settlers
By Jimmy Johnson, Truthout | News Analysis
Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation
By Ethan Bronner, The New York Times News Service | Report![]()
Waiting for Helicopters? Cholera, Prejudice and the Right to Water in Haiti
By Deepa Panchang, Other Worlds | News Analysis