2013

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 Snowden. But it seems the more we read, the less clear things are. We’ve put together a detailed snapshot of what’s known and what’s been reported where. What information does […]

Egypt

Clashes in Egypt during Morsi protests

Juan Cole

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 the provinces a number of headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood have been occupied or burned. I’ll do a summary tonight. Channel 4 News has raw video of clashes

Africa

Seven things you can learn from Mandela’s Life (CNN Video)

Juan Cole

CNN/Buzzfeed review the 7 things we can learn from the life of Nelson Mandela.

Domestic Surveillance

Top Ten Ways the Beltway Press will treat Gen. Cartwright differently from Snowden

Juan Cole

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 States is behind the Stuxnet computer virus, which was used to infect computers at Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facilities and at the Bushehr nuclear energy plants and delay their going […]

Domestic Surveillance

The Other Face of Gov’t Surveillance: Informers, Saboteurs and Entrapment Artists (Gitlin)

Juan Cole

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 if it turns out that they are aware, the NSA has surely picked up their signals and crunched their metadata). American high-tech surveillance is not, however, the only kind around. […]

Africa

Goree, Senegal’s Notorious Slave Island (Video) (President Obama’s Itinerary)

Juan Cole

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 country. Although the island was itself a relatively minor point of departure for slaves, who were more often sent off from St. Louis to the north, it stands as a […]

Domestic Surveillance

Germans Vigorously Protest Massive British/ NSA Spying on Email, Telephone Calls

Juan Cole

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 program called Tempora that allows it to capture massive amounts of telephone calls and email from transatlantic fiber optic cables that land first in the UK before they extend to […]

Tunisia

Under European Pressure, Tunisia suspends Sentence of 3 Protesters who Bared Breasts

Juan Cole

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 protest the jailing of a Tunisian woman who had made her statement in the same way. They had been found guilty of public indecency and sentenced to four months in […]

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