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Snowden Reveals Extent of Canada's Spying on Behalf of NSA

Bio Yves Engler is a Canadian commentator and author. His most recent book is The Ugly Canadian - Stephen Harper's Foreign Policy, and previously he published The Black Book of Canadian Foreign ...

Dec 15

Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry | Video on TED.com

Dec 15

David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'

America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of

Dec 15

Creator of 'The Wire' says 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror

America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics. There are definitely two Americas. I live in one, on one block in Baltimore that is part of

Dec 15

Primary dates marked "tentative date" are based on official,unofficial, and estimated data and are, thereby, subject to change. U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 113th Senate Senate Electoral

Dec 15

Last meals of innocent people sentenced to death

An emotional new ad campaign from Amnesty International asks its viewers to stomach a hard truth -- images of the last meals of wrongly executed American prisoners. Leo Jones (Florida) Jones was ...

Dec 15

according to The Switch blog at The Washington Post , in a story just emailed as breaking news, NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking . The story is co-authored by Barton ...

Dec 15

Wal-Mart arrests could fuel "a new political movement of the disenfranchised,"

Florida Congressman questions Obama's praise for Wal-Mart: "What has Wal-Mart given the president in return?"

Dec 11

Ryan Lizza: Why Won't Obama Rein in the N.S.A.?

Instead of shutting down or scaling back the N.S.A.'s programs, Obama has worked to bring them into narrow compliance with rules that often contradict the views he expressed when he was a senator ...

Dec 11

NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking ...