How Peter Thiel’s Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World The Intercept by Sam Biddle Donald Trump has inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is … Read more
Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N. judges who found him found guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, as well as on nine other war crimes charges Two Belgian ministers offered to resign over bomb suspect EurActiv.com … Read more
How FIFA’s Structure Lends Itself To Corruption FiveThirtyEight » Features by Carl Bialik The U.S. Justice Department says the indictments it handed down Wednesday against soccer officials and sports-marketing executives are just the beginning of its efforts to root out corruption in the sport. A comprehensive investigation might find that the sport’s structure itself makes soccer … Read more
US envoy indirectly joins presidential system debate in Turkey ‘Our President does not exercise full power to do anything, anywhere, at any time’ Turkey’s requests to remove content from Twitter up 156 pct in second half of 2014 Turkey topped the list with a total of 477 requests, made up of 328 court orders and 149 requests … Read more