By Reporters Without Borders
The jailing of US whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling has brought severe condemnation from press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders which says Sterling is in jail for merely talking to a journalist regularly and was sentenced based only on circumstantial evidence.

By David Swanson
Veterans For Peace in Boston, the late VFP member Howard Zinn, and several other peace organizations in Boston have been routinely spied on for years, and records kept on their peaceful and lawful activities. The Boston Police Department and the Boston Regional Intelligence Center, BRIC, (the local "fusion center") have collected and kept so-called "intelligence reports" documenting constitutionally protected speech and political activity. While not a single report refers to any engagement in or plans for violence, peace rallies are called "Criminal Acts," and the reports are labeled as dealing with "Extremists," "Civil Disturbance," and "HomeSec-Domestic."