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Is The Guardian’s Reporter Greenwald Getting Too Involved In The Snowden Affair?

Glenn Greenwald’s participation in his own story on the NSA leaks is stretching most definitions of “journalism.”

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

Sunday, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host David Gregory asked The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald a question that reached to the heart of the notion of journalistic objectivity. Greenwald is the reporter who broke the National Security Agency surveillance case by reporting that the NSA has accessed end-user databases from Verizon and other

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IRS Scandal: It Turns Out They Targeted Left-Wing Groups, Too

Some of the targeted terms included “Progressive,” “Medical Marijuana,” ”Occupied Territory Advocacy,” ”Healthcare legislation,” and “Occupy.”

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service's screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency acknowledged Monday. Terms including "Israel," ''Progressive" and "Occupy" were used by agency workers to help pick groups for closer examination, according to an

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Sign Of The Cross-Pollination: Catholic Church Endorses GMOs As Cure For Hunger

A diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks alleges that outgoing Pope Benedict and a large group of clergy have no opposition to GMOs.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are the answer to ending world hunger, at least according to the former leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI. According to a 2009 WikiLeaks cable from the U.S. embassy in the Vatican, it was discovered that “Vatican officials remain largely supportive of genetically modified crops as a

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Why Europeans Are Outraged About PRISM: The US Constitution Doesn’t Protect Them

While Americans squabble over whether U.S. citizens’ rights were violated by the NSA, EU citizens have it much worse.

Magda Fahsi
بواسطة Magda Fahsi

BRUSSELS -- “It looks to me like it could become one of the biggest data privacy scandals ever,” Renate Künast, a German politician, recently said. Europeans were shocked to hear that, after having their banking data and air passenger data transferred to the U.S. authorities without their knowledge, they now also have their personal online data

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American Factory Owner Reports Being Held ‘Hostage’ In China Over Labor Dispute

Chip Starnes says he was held hostage by workers demanding severance packages like those given to 30 co-workers in a phased-out department.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

BEIJING — An American executive said Monday he has been held hostage for four days at his medical supply plant in Beijing by scores of workers demanding severance packages like those given to 30 co-workers in a phased-out department. Chip Starnes, 42, a co-owner of Coral Springs, Florida-based Specialty Medical Supplies, said local officials had

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Where In The World Is Edward Snowden?

As the whistleblower attempts a journey towards asylum, U.S. officials up the ante for his capture.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally

Journalists from the world's largest media outlets hoping to book a trans-Atlantic flight alongside NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden were disappointed out of Moscow early Monday morning after discovering that the thirty-year old U.S. citizen was not seated on the plane headed to Havana, Cuba. The Associated Press' Max Seddon, along with other

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