The Netflix show „Orange Is the New Black“ makes jail look horrible. In reality, it‘s much worse, as we at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) know from collecting stories from prisoners and their families for decades.

(20.05.2014) Papers released in US legal proceedings have revealed that a „criminal/national security investigation“ by the US Department of Justice and FBI probe of WikiLeaks is „a multi-subject investigation“ that is still „active and ongoing“ more than four years after the anti-secrecy website began publishing secret US diplomatic and military documents.

The UK Government cancelled a working group set up with Ecuador to find a way of resolving the future of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder has claimed.

Foreign Secretary William Hague agreed to the group after meeting Ecuador‘s foreign minister Ricardo Patino last year to discuss Mr Assange, who has been living in refuge in Ecuador‘s embassy in London for the past two years.

Two years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked into Ecuador’s embassy in the UK seeking asylum, his whistleblowing group says it is set to release new classified documents pertaining to “international negotiations.”

One Democratic congressman who voted against authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 believes the media should stop turning to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for analysis of the current situation in Iraq.

As Iraq descends into chaos again, more than a decade after „Mission Accomplished,“ media commentators and politicians have mostly agreed upon calling the war a „mistake.“ But the „mistake“ rhetoric is the language of denial, not contrition: it minimizes the Iraq War‘s disastrous consequences, removes blame, and deprives Americans of any chance to learn from our generation‘s foreign policy disaster. The Iraq War was not a „mistake“ — it resulted from calculated deception. The painful, unvarnished fact is that we were lied to. Now is the time to have the willingness to say that.