Pirate Party Gets Observer Status at World Trade Organization Following the launch of the first Pirate Party in Sweden the ?Pirate? movement quickly spread all over the world, and not without success. During the German elections earlier this year nearly a million people voted for the local Pirate Party, in Iceland the national Parliament has three Pirate MPs, … Read more
And the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year Is … ‘Selfie’ Oxford Dictionaries announced “Selfie” as the international Word of the Year 2013, noting its frequency in the English language has increased by 17,000% since last year The Online Dating Engine that Assesses Your Taste In the Opposite Sex (And Whether They Find You … Read more
Anonymous Hacker Receives Maximum Prison Sentence An admitted member of the online hacking group Anonymous received the maximum sentence Friday from a judge in U.S. federal court in New York City. Jeremy Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites Anonymous hacktivist told court FBI informant and fellow hacker Sabu supplied him with list of … Read more
Wikileaks publishes the “Internet Chapter” of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (SOPA’s back) Wikileaks has published the Internet Chapter of the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a global trade-deal negotiated between corporate leaders and government reps without any democratic oversight (the US Trade Rep wouldn’t share TPP drafts with Congress, and now it is headed for fast-tracking into law). … Read more
Can?t Find the Whistleblower? Arrest a Scapegoat and Imprison & Torture Him Instead! The most common trend of surveillance states in the recent years is to chase after whistleblowers and attempt to limit citizens? information sources that are not of government version of events. Secret information on the other hand has lured attention of millions … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6DDC4CV0s For the first time ever, audiences get a behind-the-scenes insight into the world’s first truly global media event: “Operation Cablerun” : the 2011 operation during which WikiLeaks ran hundreds of thousands of secret US government cables to media outlets around the world. In Mediastan, an undercover team of journalists drives across the central … Read more
More massacres to come if al-Assad gains time: Turkish FM Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu reiterated once again Turkey’s uncompromising stance against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Victory of public opinion in Syria The discussion on intervention in Syria revealed once again the increasing role of public opinion on policy-making Most of Americans … Read more
Russia ‘absolutely’ unconvinced by Syria chemical attack claims Russia is totally unconvinced by the evidence presented by the United States and its allies Powellism, Conservatism and Syria Enoch Powell highlighted the differences between England’s vision of itself and its reality, but has this led ideology to be chosen over pragmatism in the Commons rejection of the Syria … Read more
Snowden reveals US intelligence?s black budget Former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden leaked the government?s ?black budget? for fiscal year 2013 to The Washington Post How to Use the New Facebook Insights Do you rely on Facebook Insights to track the performance of your Facebook page? Are you wondering how the new Insights … Read more
Reporting the NSA spying revelations: Q&A with Guardian editors theguardian.com ? 8/26/13 5:56 AM ? Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and Guardian US editor Janine Gibson answer questions about the NSA revelations at 10amET/3pmBST Revelations from documents Edward Snowden shared with the Guardian have fuelled debate about government Open Sourcers Pitch Secure Email in Dark … Read more
Discursive humility: Turkish PM says he doesn?t want to see ?yes men? around Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan encouraged intellectuals to warn politicians, including himself Increasing Conservative agenda: Turkish PM promises separate pools for boys and girls during speech Turkish PM has promised to bring separate Olympic pools for men and women to Rize province … Read more
Manning statement (now hyperlinked) worthy of Nobel laureate Bradley Manning?s post-sentence statement, issued by his lawyer, was the kind of statement you would expect to be given by a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in their acceptance speech. It is both unequivocal and profound. Below, we reproduce it with one difference: we have added hyperlinks, where … Read more
Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison After more than three years already spent in confinement while awaiting trial, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today for what has been described as the largest ever leak of classified government documents. Manning, who is 25 years old, had been … Read more
Gallery links: http://imgur.com/a/cF5Yh#0 http://imgur.com/a/kXjnf#0 http://imgur.com/a/cF5Yh#0 American Redditor in Egypt Shares Moving Protest Photos An American redditor caught in Egypt’s current state of chaos has uploaded a trove of pictures for anyone to use, view or share. Turkey?s ?unfortunate UN attempts? unlikely to succeed: Egypt Egypt has expressed ?dismay? at what they said were ?unfortunate? attempts … Read more
Russia faces US fury over Snowden asylum Russia faces fury from the United States after granting asylum to fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden MAIN FOCUS: Bradley Manning sent to prison | 01/08/2013 A US military court on Tuesday found Wikileaks informer Bradley Manning guilty on almost all charges, including leaking classified information. However he … Read more