Claims that rendition and torture of Abdel Hakim Belhaj breached Magna Carta rights must go before judges, supreme court rules. By Owen Bowcott and Ian Cobain.

A Rome court on Tuesday convicted eight former South American political and military leaders in the disappearance and deaths of 23 people of Italian origin during the crackdown on leftists and intellectuals by the region’s military dictatorships.

Trump’s critics can do him no bigger favor than using dubious, discredited tactics to attack him. By Glenn Greenwald.

As one of the Angola 3, he was in isolation longer than any other American. Then he came home to face his future. By Rachel Aviv.

How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly Track You. By Benjamin Powers.

Obama has laid all the groundwork Trump needs for a crackdown on reporters. By James Risen.

On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government. By Robert Fisk.

An alliance between Henry Kissinger and US President-elect Donald Trump may seem unnatural at first blush, but it makes sense as a marriage of convenience. Kissinger wants validation that he is still relevant, which Trump has done by playing on his vanity; and Trump needs the foreign-policy gravitas that Kissinger brings in spades. By Dominique Moisi.

On March 15, 2002, 15 Saudi girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca. They were not trapped by fallen debris, or unaccounted for by firefighters. The mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s religious police, would not allow the girls to leave their burning school because they were not covering their hair or wearing their abayas... By Felix Biederman.

I’ve been researching the CIA for over 30 years and I’ve interviewed over 100 CIA officers. So naturally, people often wonder how I prepare myself. In one of the interviews... By Douglas Valentine.

So, Americans are outraged that Russia may have attempted to interfere in US elections. From Italy to Guatemala, Indonesia to Afghanistan, people ask “So, how does it feel?” By T.J. Raphael.

If there's one thing we know about the CIA, it's that the unethical and criminal projects highlighted in this list are probably just the tip of the iceberg. (May, 2013)

Beatings, sleep deprivation, menacing and other brutal tactics have led to persistent mental health problems among detainees held in secret C.I.A. prisons and at Guantánamo. By Matt Apuzzo, Sheri Fink and James Risen.

Like any good, vaguely sinister spy outfitter, Cellebrite deflects questions about whether it would sell its phone-breaching tools to a repressive regime. By Sam Biddle, Fahad Desmukh.

Anticipating that Donald Trump might try to fulfill his promises to “bomb the shit” out of terror groups, President Obama on Monday summarized his administration’s views of the limits to presidential power. By Alex Emmons.

Riots, assassinations and floundering wars abroad nearly brought the nation to its knees. By John Kuroski.

I’ve long been taken aback by the readiness of some leading left intellectuals to downplay the role of state violence in the enforcement of social hierarchy and class rule inside the United States… By Paul Street.

MLK was murdered in a conspiracy instigated by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and that also involved the U.S. military, the Memphis Police and “Dixie Mafia” crime figures in Memphis, Tennessee… By Craig McKee.

More than the president’s brother and attorney general, Robert F. Kennedy was his lead hand on the hardest matters, the ones that made them some dangerous foes. After the assassination, he was left to wonder if one among them had done it. By Bryan Bender and Neil Swidey. (Nov. 24, 2013)

The vote for Donald Trump may well have been what Michael Moore called the ‘biggest fuck-you ever recorded in human history’, delivered by the white working class to spite ‘the establishment’. But it isn’t just the size of the fuck-you that matters; it’s also who delivers it… By Jan-Werner Müller.