The push to punish pipeline protestors has spread across the U.S. By Naveena Sadasivam. (May 14, 2019)

Literally every single one of them. By Jessica M. Goldstein.

The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies have known for years that Saudi diplomats were helping Saudi fugitives. But Washington avoided even raising the problem out of concern that it might hurt Saudi cooperation in the fight against terrorism. By Sebastian Rotella, Tim Golden, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh.

Radio War Nerd (July 24, 2018)

Journalists could face years in jail for handling a classified military document that revealed details about France’s involvement in the Yemen conflict. By Ryan Gallagher. (May 17, 2019)

Discoveries have helped fuel national debate over nonstick chemical contamination. By Sara Talpos.

A Redditor who posted information about a Jehovah’s Witness-affiliated organization has won the right to defend themselves in court under a pseudonym. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented the user known only as Darkspilver, successfully argued that unmasking them put them at risk of being cast out by their Jehovah’s Witness community.

Pundits are blaming the Australian Labor Party's left-wing turn for its shocking defeat in Saturday's election. But the failure lies in the fact that this leftist program came too little, too late. By Daniel Lopez.

Australia's voters back PM Morrison's faith in fossil fuel. By Sonali Paul.

Germany becomes the first country in the world to criminalise the boycott, disinvest and sanction movement. Shir Hever, TRNN correspondent in Germany and expert on Palestine-Israel, responds in this conversation.

The US and its allies have fatally underestimated the religious motivation of their adversaries, and lost countless conflicts as a result. By Patrick Cockburn.

When the Australian security consultant Julian Gutmanis was summoned to a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia in the summer of 2017, what he found made his blood run cold. By Martin Giles. (Mar. 5, 2019)

In an interview, one of the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination discusses his long-held opposition to war and his support for socialist leaders. By Sydney Ember, for the former Samoza Guard.

The state's abortion ban treats women as victims of evil doctors rather than informed, willing participants. By Emily Atkin.

In a first for a city in the United States, San Francisco has voted to ban its government agencies from using facial recognition technology. The city’s Board of Supervisors voted eight to one to approve the proposal, set to take effect in a month, that would bar city agencies, including law enforcement, from using the tool. The ordinance would also require city agencies to get board approval for their use of surveillance technology, and set up audits of surveillance tech already in use. Other cities have approved similar transparency measures.

Sophisticated digital spyware such as Pegasus can turn cellphones into secret agents to take aim at advocates, lawyers, scientists, and the media – and these programs know no borders. By John Scott-Railton, Ronald J. Deibert.

My name is Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. I am competent to be a witness, and I possess personal knowledge of the facts set forth below... I’m not going to change my mind. Not now, not ever. So be it. [PDF]

On the history of the second amendment, white militias, and border vigilantism… By Angelo Guisado.

Trump should not waste his opportunity to begin repairing Wahhabism’s trail of wreckage. By John Hannah.

Some 18 million barrels of oil transit through every day. The economic impact would be catastrophic. By Scott Ritter.