WIKILEAKS was critical in establishing the facts of one of the most horrific instances of CIA kidnap and torture, a hearing in London heard yesterday.
Testifying in support of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Old Bailey, Khaled Al-Masri’s statement related how he was arrested under mistaken identity and held in secret for months.
In 2003 Al-Masri, a German national, was detained while on holiday in Macedonia, handed to the CIA and subjected to months of grotesque abuse.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ


