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Archives for October 2013

Investigation: Who Killed Michael Hastings?

Hours before journalist Hasting’s deadly car crash, he suspected his car’s system had been hacked.

Carl Gibson
By Carl Gibson

Early in the morning on June 18, a brand new Mercedes C250 coupe was driving through the Melrose intersection on Highland Avenue in Hollywood when suddenly, out of nowhere, it sped up. According to an eye-witness, the car accelerated rapidly, bounced several times then fishtailed out of control before it slammed into a palm tree and burst into

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In Spain, NSA Collected 60 Million Calls In One Month Alone

Latest revelations made possible by Edward Snowden reveal extent of surveillance on Spanish communication networks.

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally

Glenn Greenwald, working with journalist Germán Aranda at the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, is reporting Monday that the U.S. National Security Agency has been heavily monitoring telephone communications in Spain, citing one NSA document showing the tracking of over 60 millions calls in the span of just one month. The document, part of a trove of

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Will America’s Mideast Allies Give Peace A Chance?

Israel and Saudi Arabia may have the leverage and the oil (respectively) to head off any would-be détente between the U.S. and Iran.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

  News from the world of global diplomacy has rightly been swamped with coverage of goings-on in Syria of late, which this past month has seen the resolution of the burgeoning crisis between Damascus and Washington over the use of chemical arms in that country’s civil war. With an American aircraft carrier now leaving the region and the deal

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Global Police ‘War Games’ And Weapons Expo Kicks Off In Oakland

As “Urban Shield” marks its seventh annual event, peace advocates note the increasing militarization of police.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

Friday marked the beginning of the seventh annual “Urban Shield” event, in which law enforcement agencies from across the globe participate in war games and attend a weapons technology show. The event, which runs until Monday, Oct. 28, is sponsored by weapons manufacturers such as ATK, which makes everything from small caliber bullets to depleted

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Opposition in High Gear: Saudi Women Get Behind the Wheel to Fight Anti-Driving Law

Twenty years after women were jailed in a similar protest, support from social media and elite women in government are giving momentum to the reform effort.

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

Women in Saudi Arabia are banding together in protest against anti-driving laws, despite threats by the government that any acts of resistance will be met with stiff penalties. To protest the kingdom’s laws that ban them from driving, women in the country are showing their opposition by engaging in that very act — on Saturday, women from

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To Protect Fetuses, Can We Lock Up Mothers? Court to Decide

By separating mothers from their unborn children, fetal protection laws are used in contravention of a woman’s privacy.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
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In Wisconsin, the state’s fetal protection laws are slated to face their first constitutionality test in federal court. The case — in which a 12-weeks pregnant woman was handcuffed, placed in government custody and forced to submit to a drug withdrawal program for a drug all medical testing showed she was clear of — threatens to challenge the

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