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Oct 10 2014 3:31PM
Meet 'citizen four' and learn why we should fear mass surveillance

In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was several years into the making of a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America. She started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as ‘citizen four’...

Oct 7 2014 5:58PM
10 presents for Putin

Happy Birthday, Mister President! Vladimir Putin, 62 years old today, will be celebrating his birthday in Siberia , apparently. I have some ideas for presents, should any relatives or friends of the President be searching for last...

Oct 5 2014 10:05AM
London: Hunger Strike & Sit-in for Hong Kong Democracy

三千人在倫敦中国使馆前: 聲援香港争民主3K ppl protest outside #China embassy in London to support #HK Democracy http://t.co/y96Gz5Usr2 两名香港学生在倫敦中國大使館門前, 已經絕食二十小時。绝食宣言: 沒有公民提名,我們抗命! # UmbrellaRevolution http://www. inmediahk.net/node/1026727...

Oct 3 2014 6:07PM
A partial list of detained or disappeared after expressing support for #HK Democracy 4 Oct 14

Over 50 mainland Chinese activists detained after expressing support for #HK democracy Zhang Shengyu (张圣雨), Guangzhou activist, disappered Zhang Yan (张焱), journalist, disappered Wang Long (汪龙), Shenzhen activist, criminally detained on...

Oct 3 2014 10:36AM
The dangers of scrapping the Human Rights Act

At a fundamental level, human rights are an assertion of protection from the government and a claim for the protection of the government. Power has the potential for good and ill, which is why power must be regulated and laden with...