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The Contradiction of Capital Markets…and more
First, a science-fictional side: Here's hoping that Hugo voters
will consider that Stanley Schmidt has just retired after his long and
brilliant tenure as editor at ANALOG Magazine. It is his last year of
eligibility and it might be nice to honor him, at long last.And yes, I
will have some unusual and skew-perspective takes on all the
transparency-related news, from Google Glasses to the NSA reve
KPFK 'BradCast': Illegal NSA Surveillance Programs 101
Mark Rumold, attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation told
me there is "no question" that the surveillance programs revealed by
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden include both illegalities and
unconstitutionalities.
Rumold was my guest this week on the KPFK/Pacifica Radio BradCast where
my hope was to strip away all of the nonsense "controversy" about
Snowden and Guardian journalist Glenn
Egypt: Will American Officials Call this a ‘Coup?’
This is obviously a fast moving situation, but the latest reports
suggest that the army is effectively staging a coup and ousting
President Morsi. So what to think of this? On the one hand, Morsi was
democratically elected. On the other hand, he’s used is power in ways
that tended to subvert the constitutional process and has obviously
alienated massive swaths of the populace.
From a diplomatic
Yes, That’s a Coup in Egypt
Apparently, some of the protesters who support what the Egyptian
army is doing right now claim it isn’t a coup because they believe it
expresses the popular will, and the U.S. government so far refuses to
stick a label on it.
Well, I hate to break it to those people, but in any conventional sense
of the term, this is a coup. Here are a few of the definitions used by
leading scholars of coups and c
“The Five Myths of Global Terrorism” – Video Interview with Dr. Gary LaFree
The reactions of U.S. officials to the leaks from former National
Security Administration (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden point to the
political resonance that terrorism holds for the American public. The
repeated justification for all NSA surveillance programs is their
alleged role in gathering information needed to avert terrorist plots.
Preventing terrorism is only one of many NSA collection a
Power Africa. Power the World
Ban Ki Moon likes to call sustainable energy the “golden thread” that
weaves through the entire international development agenda. You can’t
have sustainable development with out sustainable energy. And you can’t
have sustainable energy without new investments in technology and
infrastructure. That is why President Obama’s rollout this week of the
$7 billion Power Africa initiative is significant
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