Human Rights

The corruption scandal in Spain and its leader calls into question the funding model for political parties and points towards the need for strict controls.

As a Senator, Obama supported legislation to curb the very use of mass surveillance that he now defends underneath his presidency.

The hot, seemingly untroubled vacation days in Germany were disturbed only mildly by two abbreviations, NSU and NSA u2013 which were not to be confused!

In what many have called a blatant abuse of power that strips Americans of their fundamental constitutional rights, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is collaborating with the National Security …

The closing of U.S. embassies in 21 predominantly Muslim countries and a broad caution about travel during August that the State Department issued on Friday touched off debate Sunday …

The immigration reform bills presently under consideration ignore how US policy has caused Mexican immigration.

There's a new trend in surveillance and that trend involves drones in our skies. Many have seen them, but most don't report them. Why not? It's because until recently, …

Senator Lindsey Graham, the most radical authoritarian in the radically authoritarian U.S. Senate, has introduced a legislative measure that would impose trade sanctions on any country that offers asylum …

Journalist Glenn Greenwald responds to a report by Reuters about how a secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is covering up its use of intelligence intercepts, wiretaps to help …

The right to access quality food is profoundly connected to the rights to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. People of color should enjoy all these rights, but …