Beersheba (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – After his address to an almost empty hall at the UN, Benjamin Netanyahu found a warmer reception at […]
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PATRIOT Act Drafters worried about Library Privacy, had No Idea everyone’s Phone Records would be Dragooned (Elliott)
Justin Elliott writes at ProPublica In the months following the October 2001, passage of the Patriot Act, there was a heated public debate about the […]
Dubai: Solar-Powered Teardrop Building to Suck Water from Air
On the proposed sustainable ‘Water Building’ in Dubai See also the “most sustainable building in the world,” in Dubai: The Change Initiative on Sheikh Zayed […]
Egypt’s Morsi Calls for No-Fly Zone over Syria: A step toward regional Sunni-Shiite War?
Egypt’s President, Muhammad Morsi, called Saturday for a no-fly zone over Syria authorized by the UN Security Council. At the same time, he cut off […]
British Gov’t Spied on Diplomats at G20 (& on UN before Iraq War)
The Guardian is reporting that: “Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored […]
Top 5 Temptations the Surveillance State Can’t Resist (Engelhardt)
Tom Engelhardt writes at Tomdispatch.com The Making of a Global Security State As happens with so much news these days, the Edward Snowden revelations about […]
A Brief History of Typography (Animated Video)
A History of Typography, by Ben Barrett-Forrest:
Obama Isolated at G8 on Arms for Syrian Rebels
President Obama met with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday in advance of Monday’s G8 summit. The 8 leaders meeting in Northern Ireland, will […]
Erdogan Clears Gezi Park Protesters, sets Stage for Polarization
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday evening into Sunday morning had police deploy water cannon and tear gas (some say laced with pepper spray) to […]
An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran: Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns
Update: Centrist Hassan Rouhani is Iran’s new president, having won a massive victory in a field of 6 candidates. 13:19 ET, 6/15/13 Early election returns […]
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