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www.buzzfeed.com In the past week, the peaceful sit-in protest against the demolition of Gezi Park for the construction of a shoppig mall in Istanbul has quickly turned into anti-government protests throughout Turk...
www.guardian.co.uk Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg sharply deny knowledge of Prism until Thursday even as Obama confirms program's existence
www.npr.org Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina's music as The Evens is quiet and spare, but it preserves the intensity of their past bands, Fugazi and The Warmers. Here, the husband and wife discuss their latest album, The Odds.
spectrevision.net The use of Nazis by U.S. intelligence had the additional dangerous effect of letting the Nazis influence how the United States perceived its erstwhile allies in Moscow, based on information about Moscow’s intentions that originated with...
gawker.com A first-time adjunct professor teaching a full course load at the City University of New York can expect to pull in around $25,000 per year. If you recently resigned as C.I.A. director over a long-time affair with your biographer, however,...
www.guardian.co.uk Barrett Brown: Those who tell us to trust the US's secret, privatised surveillance schemes should recall the criminality of J Edgar Hoover's FBI
www.ibtimes.co.uk Influential lobby group says scope and scale of the scandal is ravaging the UK economy
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www.alternet.org Prisoners in an NJ jail, like prisoners across the country, have built a subterranean system of communication to defy the conditions of incarceration and keep themselves connected.
lifehacker.com How to Supercharge Your Router with DD-WRT
rt.com Attorneys for computer hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer filed an appeal on Monday asking the United States District Court to overturn what they call “a remarkable and unprecedented criminal conviction.”
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reason.com One of the many lurid details in The Guardian’s remarkable interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was his account of what initially prompted
rt.com Hunger striking inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp have petitioned a US federal court to stop the practice of force-feeding, claiming it is unethical and violates their human rights.
qz.com If there is any doubt about the persistent power of literature in the face of digital culture, it should be banished by the recent climb of George Orwell’s 1984 up the Amazon “Movers & Shakers” list. There is much that’s resonant for us in Orwell’s...
www.pcworld.com A large coalition of civil rights and privacy groups and potentially thousands of websites will stage protests on the Fourth of July to protest surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency.
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www.guardian.co.uk Protesters use anniversary of the handover from Britain to press for universal suffrage and elections for chief executive
www.aljazeera.com Is there any prospect of a properly regulated garments industry in the country, and what would it mean for the market?
www.washingtonpost.com Judges at the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court feel report distorts their role in data-collection approvals.
www.againstcronycapitalism.org Where’s the Corzine criminal probe?By Editor on July 1, 2013According to prior reports, it won’t be happening.(From The New York Post)But many on the Street are wondering: Where are the criminal charges?On Fox Business News,...
www.washingtonpost.com In Tanzania, Obama, Bush lay wreath for 1998 bombing victimsBy David Nakamura – President Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, laid a wreath at the U.S. embassy here in a solemn memorial for victims of a 1998 t...
www.dailykos.com The Iowa Republican Caucuses all began with the attendees giving the Pledge of Allegiance. Well, why? And what really is this Pledge of Allegiance anyway?
www.alternet.org Mohammed Badie arrested in coastal city near Libyan border, officials say.
www.nytimes.com The Legislature has approved a proposal that would have students commit a percentage of future income for university payment, but it faces procedural and practical hurdles.
