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25 to See Before You Lose Your Liberal Sensibilities: Number 1
The Battle of Algiers (1966), Directed by: Gillo Pontecorvo, Written by: Gillo Pontecorvo and Franco Solinas “When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.” – Victor Hugo I was fortunate...
View ArticleUndercover videos are fine, except when they’re about animal abuse. Then...
Think Progress reports that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that police can secretly videotape the inside of your home without a warrant. The case involves an undercover officer who...
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The Surveillance State That We Built
Roughly speaking, the contours of the debate over the Obama administration’s massive digital surveillance of both foreigners and U.S. citizens have taken this shape: Obama’s critics charge the...
View ArticleAn Interview on NSA Surveillance With Former State Department Official...
Matthew Hoh is a former Marine who served six years in Iraq before being stationed in Afghanistan as a high-ranking foreign service officer. In 2009, Hoh resigned from the State Department in protest...
View ArticleNSA Surveillance is Legal, and That’s the Worst Thing About It
Out of the three main arguments in defense of sweeping NSA surveillance — it’s legal; it keeps us safe; it’s not that intrusive — the lamest and most tone-deaf by far is the first. That’s not because...
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We Asked a War Correspondent About the Origins of ISIS
Anand Gopal’s job is to report from the front lines of conflict. He spent years as the Wall Street Journal’s reporter in Afghanistan, and in a few months he will be heading to Iraq to take stock of the...
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