A law suit aimed at mass surveillance was filed Tuesday against America’s National Security Agency and Department of Justice, by the Wikimedia Foundation and eight other complainants. “The surveillance exceeds the scope of the authority that Congress provided in the FISA Amendments Act
By Cathrine Seierstad, Morten Huse, and Silvija Seres1, The ConversationMarch 8, 2015 It recently emerged that there were more men named John running large companies in the United States than women. Actually the U.S.S is about average when it comes to the percentage
In Commentary: A new age of ignorance, by Tom Regan Ordinarily, it would be laughable for a U.S. Republican senator to throw a snowball in the chamber, as did climate change denier James Inhofe, and say that recent cold temperatures in Washington,
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSFebruary, 2015 By envisioning King Lear’s age as “four score and upward,” Shakespeare created a great role for an actor to play in the autumn of his career. So wasn’t Len Cariou, at age 44, a bit young for
“Why, of course, the people don’t want war. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
Boko Haram heaps electoral bad luck on Goodluck Jonathan, by Jonathan Manthorpe (Paywall) Reports from the Nigerian military that they have launched a major offensive against Boko Haram, killed 300 of the group’s fighters and recaptured 11 towns and villages
TOM REGAN February 20, 2015 Many years ago, when I was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University, a colleague and friend from Uganda, Charles Unyongo-Obbo, and I were the last two people to leave a function. As we walked out into the crisp
BRIAN BRENNAN: BRIEF ENCOUNTERSFebruary, 2015 Tennessee Williams had always wanted to reimagine Anton Chekhov’s 1896 play, The Seagull. He considered it the greatest of modern plays after Brecht’s Mother Courage, and he felt it had never been properly released from the confines
Two centuries ago today warfare between Great Britain and America came to its legal end, with the ratification of the The Treaty of Ghent on February 16, 1815. Writes F&O Thoughtlines columnist Jim McNiven in the first of a three-part series on the
Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim is showing signs of eccentricity and paranoia, notes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe. It’s not surprising — but it is also true that he will have wrought real change. An excerpt of Manthorpe’s new column, Co-opted judiciary sentences Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim to 5
