Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That is […]
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Glenn Greenwald: Good journalism is measured by how angry you make the people you’re covering (Video)
Greenwald’s video appearance at the Socialism conference in Chicago (via We are Many:
Everything you wanted to Know About NSA Surveillance *but were afraid to ask (Stray)
Jonathan Stray writes at ProPublica: There have been a lot of news stories about NSA surveillance programs following the leaks of secret documents by Edward […]
Clashes in Egypt during Morsi protests
Egypt is beset today with dueling large protests for and against President Muhammad Morsi. In some places, as in Alexandria, they turned violent, and in […]
Seven things you can learn from Mandela’s Life (CNN Video)
CNN/Buzzfeed review the 7 things we can learn from the life of Nelson Mandela.
Top Ten Ways the Beltway Press will treat Gen. Cartwright differently from Snowden
NBC reports that Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright is under investigation as the source for David Sanger’s 2012 New York Times article revealing that the United […]
The Other Face of Gov’t Surveillance: Informers, Saboteurs and Entrapment Artists (Gitlin)
Todd Gitlin writes at Tomdispatch.com Only Martians, by now, are unaware of the phone and online data scooped up by the National Security Agency (though […]
Goree, Senegal’s Notorious Slave Island (Video) (President Obama’s Itinerary)
Here is a UNESCO documentary on Gorée, the Slave Island off Senegal,: which President Obama and his family are visiting during their visit to that […]
Germans Vigorously Protest Massive British/ NSA Spying on Email, Telephone Calls
The German government has demanded answers from the British state with regard to revelations by Edward Snowden that the British spy agency GCHQ has a […]
Under European Pressure, Tunisia suspends Sentence of 3 Protesters who Bared Breasts
A Tunisian court has given suspended sentences to three European members of Femen (2 French, 1 German) who had bared their breasts in public to […]
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