Democracy

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.

Al-Qaeda's power has waned in Mali, but unresolved ethnic conflicts still threaten the country after 16 months of civil war.;

The FEC is in the news with reports that Republicans are trying to force changes that would neutralize it even further.

“To me, Greece is a crime scene,” says Greg Palast in this Truthout interview.

Shamus Cooke: The battle for the future of Egypt is underway, and it's chaos.

Real democracy in the Arab world is not in the American interest.

John Pilger: Bradley Manning is a principled whistleblower and truth-teller who has been vilified and tortured.

If they can jail someone based on surveillance-gathered data forwarded surreptitiously to the DEA, why not you?

A new report reveals that a secretive DEA unit funnels surveillance info from gov't agencies to law enforcement — and tells them to hide it.

Brendan Fisher: After forty years, corporate-funded ALEC remains an organization filled with secrecy.