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UK Grapples with Spying Disclosure
British news outlets struggle to figure out what to do with the revelation that their government and the NSA spied on members of the last G8 summit.
Indefinite Surveillance: Say Hello to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014
The NDAA for 2014 will effectively authorize indefinite surveillance of everyone.
TransCanada’s Keystone XL, the Safest Pipeline Ever – Says Who?
The southern portion of the KXL pipeline is over 75 percent complete but resistance continues and will likely intensify now that construction anomalies have been revealed by mandatory testing.
The Terror Diaspora: The US Military and the Unraveling of Africa
As the war in Afghanistan — a conflict born of blowback — winds down, there will be greater incentive and opportunity to project U.S. military power in Africa.
Guantanamo Prisoner Al-Nashiri’s Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions
Attorney Marjorie Cohn analyzes the legal issues raised by the Al-Nashiri pretrial hearings in Guantanamo last week and concludes that the new, improved military commissions can still put someone …
Four Paradoxes of the Nuclear Age
A 1950 Japanese film entitled Rashomon describes an incident in which four witnesses to a crime give wildly contradictory but equally plausible accounts of what happened. In the on-going …
Conscience of Edward Snowden, Courage Is Contagious
As the revelations of mass NSA surveillance raised shock-waves around the globe, 29-year old Edward Snowden came forward to identify himself as the one behind the largest leak in …
Obama Moves to ‘Unblock’ Medicine to Iran
The Obama administration announced on Wednesday, May 22nd that it will be dispatching a team of State Department and Treasury officials to ensure that Iranians are not blocked from …
Hot Tuna? – The Fish of Fukushima
Many media outlets say that Japan's Tuna is no longer harmful from radiation poisoning, but conflicting reports make the answer unclear.
Education in Iceland
Iceland is considering a rash of new education initiatives that would fundamentally alter power dynamics in the classroom.