Documentary about Israeli peace activists. Film by Terje Carlsson. Read more HERE or HERE

The growing controversy over President Obama's illegal waging of war in Libya got much bigger last night with Charlie Savage's New York Times scoop. He reveals that top administration lawyers -- Attorney General Eric Holder, OLC Chief Caroline Krass, and DoD General Counsel Jeh Johnson -- all told Obama that his latest, widely panned excuse for waging war without Congressional approval (that it does not rise to the level of "hostilities" under the War Powers Resolution (WPR)) was invalid and that such authorization was legally required after 60 days: itself a generous intepretation of the President's war powers.

Jason Ditz: Obama Ignored Justice, DoD Lawyers on Libya
Jim Lobe: Obama’s Claim of Libya War Powers Widely Disputed

US judge approves request to "not prosecute" former al-Qaeda chief, in a common legal move following a defendant's [alleged] death. - Friday's move came following the al-Qaeda leader's death in May, closing a 13-year court case against the [alleged] mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The charges included more than 200 counts of criminal activity such as murder, conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against civilians and more. However, none of the charges were related to the September 11 attacks. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan approved the request, issuing an order called "nolle prosequi", which means "do not prosecute" in Latin, a typical legal move once a defendant is deceased.

DICK CHENEY: BIN LADEN, NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11

Exactly a decade after farmers in Palnadu region sold their kidneys to clear their mounting debts, poverty-stricken women from the backward Palnadu region have fallen prey to clinical trials by a Hyderabad-based pharma company. - The clinical tests on human beings, reportedly without the requisite permission of the state government, came to light on Thursday when some of the victims fell seriously ill in Piduguralla town. Many of those who returned from the lab after the tests developed acute joint pains, swelling in arms and throat infections. Acting swiftly, district collector V N Vishnu directed district medical and health officer Gopi Naik to rush to Piduguralla and probe the incident. "Though the pharma company promised to pay us huge amounts before conducting the tests, they paid me only 9,000," rued Shaik Bibi, who underwent the tests along with several other women in the lab in Miyapur, Hyderabad. The firm, breaking all rules, did not provide any information to the women on the nature of tests conducted on them.

Several women drive around in kingdom in open defiance of rule that prohibits them from driving. - Friday's show of defiance came in response to calls on social networking sites to defy the ban that prohibits women from driving in the kingdom. "We've just returned from the supermarket. My wife decided to start the day by driving to the store and back," said columnist Tawfiq Alsaif on his Twitter page on Friday. "I took King Fahd Road [Riyadh artery] and then Olaya Street, along with my husband, I decided that the car for today is mine," local resident Maha al-Qahtani tweeted. She also told the AFP news agency that driving is "a right for women that no law or religion bans ... I went out to get my right, so that it would be up to me to drive or not". Her husband Mohammed al-Qahtani tweeted that she carried her necessary belongings "ready to go to prison without fear". The en masse action was the first since November 1990, when a group of 47 Saudi women stunned men by driving around Riyadh in 15 cars before being arrested.

This year, Bilderberg was bigger than ever. Bigger crowds, bigger names, more coverage. So here, starting with about the least most important thing, is what I've learned from this year's Bilderberg summit in St Moritz.

The police and secret services keep the cameras at bay. The pegged-up shower curtain hides the hotel. Blackened windows and security escorts protect the delicate, quivering participants from the horror of being identified. The coyest are never seen at all, and never make the delegate list.

Now compare that with your life. CCTV cameras with face-recognition software scan your daily life. Travel cards log your journeys. And online, you'll have noticed – particularly in the last year – how your accounts are all being linked, and how you're having to constantly prove your identity. Anonymity is a sin. Anonymity is what terrorists do.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his government is investigating reports that US-led foreign forces have used chemical weapons in Afghanistan. - In a press conference in Kabul on Saturday, Karzai complained that the weapons used by US-led forces are polluting Afghanistan. Karzai also called for an end to unilateral military operations in his country, adding that foreign forces should conduct their activities under Afghan law and stop killing civilians in their operations. Kabul has been condemning attacks on Afghans, with Karzai saying the foreign forces should stop looking for Taliban militants among civilians.

Rabbinical court rules spirit of secular lawyer who insulted judges 20 years ago transferred into wandering dog's body. - A Jerusalem rabbinical court recently sentenced a wandering dog to death by stoning. The cruel sentence stemmed from the suspicion that the spirit of a famous secular lawyer, who insulted the court's judges 20 years ago, had been transferred into the dog's body. Several weeks ago, according to the Behadrei Hadarim website, a large dog entered the Monetary Affairs Court near the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim. The dog scared the court's visitors and, to their surprise, refused to leave even after they attempted to drive him away. One of the judges suddenly recalled that about 20 years ago, a famous secular lawyer who insulted the court was cursed by the panel of judges, who wished that his spirit would move on to the body of a dog (considered an impure animal by Halacha). The lawyer passed away several years ago. Still offended, one of the judges sentenced the poor animal to death by stoning, recruiting the neighborhood's children to carry out the order. Luckily, the dog managed to escape. The head of the court, Rabbi Avraham Dov Levin, denied that the judges had called for the dog's stoning. But one of the court's managers confirmed the report to Yedioth Ahronoth. "It was ordered by the rabbis because of the grief he had caused the court," he said. "They didn't issue an official ruling, but ordered the children outside to throw stones at him in order to drive him away. They didn't think of it as cruelty to animals, but as an appropriate way to 'get back at' the spirit which entered the poor dog."