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Miley Twerking On Things We Should Talk About

The last few days my Facebook news feed has been inundated with ‘news’ from the MTV Video Music Awards. Newspapers are picking up on the ‘drama’ from the award ceremony, and the internet is aflutter with...

by Natasha Lipman

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“Why Edward Snowden Wishes He’d Sought Asylum In Poland”

The Polish vodka Sobieski states on its website that vodka’s “birthplace was in Poland” and not in Russia, as many believe. However what draws attention to the product is the use of whistleblower Edward Snowden in...

by Robert Valencia

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Damage Control

Last week, a very serious espionage allegation regarding the NSA and several ‘allied’ countries was brought to light. Over the past 12 months whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assan...

by Nadim Souss

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Snowden, the NSA, and Latin America: Beyond the headlines

If you were to read only the headlines of US news covering the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden and the NSA’s surveillance in Latin America over the last two weeks, it would be easy to think that Latin America was a ...

by Anita Chan

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Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

Among the snooping revelations of recent weeks, there have been tantalizing bits of evidence that the NSA is tapping fiber-optic cables that carry nearly all international phone and Internet data. The idea that the NSA is swe...

by Justin Elliott

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Destruction of Guardian NSA Files: We Europeans Have Press Freedom Enshrined In Our Law Too

Last month the editor of the Guardian, the UK newspaper responsible for the publishing of Edward Snowden’s classified NSA files, wrote about how British security services compelled him to physically destroy the electronic equ...

by Gjis van Wanten

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Snowden, Censorship & the Surveillance State

Sighs of relief are being breathed across the world now Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum in Russia, ending his one-month confinement in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Snowden, who told the world the truth abo...

by Marienna Pope-Weidemann

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Business As Usual

The Snowden revelations have cause us to re-examine our internet freedom and right to self-privacy. The far reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency and the rest of the Five Eyes (Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealan...

by Andrew Herweg

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Miley Twerking On Things We Should Talk About

“Why Edward Snowden Wishes He’d Sought Asylum In Poland”

Damage Control

Snowden, the NSA, and Latin America: Beyond the headlines

Does the NSA Tap That? What We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Internet Surveillance

Destruction of Guardian NSA Files: We Europeans Have Press Freedom Enshrined In Our Law Too

Snowden, Censorship & the Surveillance State

Business As Usual

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