friday reads

A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says.


In a secret report last year, the Red Cross found that the CIA's interrogation techniques were "categorically" torture, a new book reveals.


Glenn Greenwald interviews Jameel Jaffer, the Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, on challenging the constitutionality of the new FISA law.


Bill Moyers: Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column?


10 Reasons Why Your Economic Pain Isn't 'Mental'


Christ on a cracker! The loathsome Bill Donohue is on a witchhunt against PZ Myers.


Bhasin: Maliki and the Timetable: It's all about Blackwater