It may be Bradley Manning who is nominally on trial, but these proceedings reveal the US government's fixation with extreme secrecy, covering up its own crimes, and intimidating future whistleblowers.

America has 2.3 million people in prison -- more than any other country. No society in history has imprisoned more of its citizens. The US has 5% of the world's population but 25% of its prisoners.

Hillary Clinton parades herself as the planet’s leading protector of Internet freedom while she and the Obama administration are waging a multi-front war against it.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama is waging war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Uganda and bragging about starting another in Iran.

A new industry is emerging that secretly vacuums up the personal data from your digital lives and will sell it to state secret services and big business.

A White House office operates as a 'one-stop wrecking machine' for important environmental protections, with Obama dancing to the tune of the oil and coal companies.

The US has repeatedly refused Juan Méndez, the UN special rapporteur on torture, access to Bradley Manning. What have they got to hide?

Murder and Assassinations are illegal under the US constitution, but that doesn't stop Obama killing 16-year-old Americans without explanation.

America, Israel, Russia and China wanted to approve use of 'bomblets' scattered over a wide area, maiming and killing civilians, notably children, long after they have been dropped.

Endless war, drone attacks and occupying countries is the cause of the threats we're told we need endless war, drone attacks and occupying countries to prevent.

The US, supported by other cluster bomb manufacturers – including Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan – aim this week to get the ban on their use lifted.

From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Vietnam to Iraq, the manufacture of weapons and the export of war have been key ways in which the United States has stimulated its economy.

98% of cluster bomb victims are civilians, 27% of them children. Most countries want them banned. But Barack Obama and David Cameron are colluding to have production and use continue unabated.

Despite government budget pressures and international rhetoric about disarmament, the nuclear powers are expanding production of weapons of mass destruction.

"I have one question," says a young friend of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old American killed by a US drone attack, "Who can't America kill?"

"It takes a coward to harm an unarmed civilian. This is not a war zone, these are unarmed people, it does not make you tough to hurt these people. If you want to go fight, go to Iraq and Afghanistan."