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Archives for November 2014

Thousands Protest Peacfully Around The Nation Following Ferguson Grand Jury Decision, More Protests Planned

Police from departments around the nation reported that protests were mostly peaceful following Monday’s announcement.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Ferguson Nationwide Protests

Thousands of people rallied late Monday in U.S. cities including Los Angeles and New York to passionately but peacefully protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri. They led marches, waved signs and shouted chants of "hands up, don't shoot," the refrain that has

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Israel Detains 10-Year-Old As Rights Groups Slam “Shoot-To-Kill” Policy

Unrest has gripped Jerusalem and the West Bank on an almost daily basis for the past four months, flaring up after a group of Zionist settlers kidnapped and burned a young Palestinian to death because of his ethnicity.

Al Akhbar
By Al Akhbar
Israeli forces arrest a Palestinian child

Israeli forces detained a 10-year-old Palestinian boy in the Silwan neighborhood on Monday evening, a local information center said, as human rights groups accused Israel of encouraging a "shoot-to-kill" policy among its security forces. Meanwhile, Israeli settlers continued to attack Palestinians and their properties as Israeli authorities

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Latest Snowden Leak: UK, US Behind Regin Malware, Attacked European Union Networks

Two governments working together are said to have developed the state-sponsored malware that attacked the European Union. Guess what? One of the makers was an EU country.

Zack Whittaker for ZDNet
By Zack Whittaker for ZDNet

Blame the British and American spy agencies for the latest state-sponsored malware attack, say reporters at The Intercept. The publication, which in the wake of Glenn Greenwald's departure from The Guardian continued to publish documents leaked by Edward Snowden, said on Monday the recently discovered malware, known as Regin, was used against

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We Are The Enemy: Is This The Lesson Of Ferguson?

Ferguson matters because it provides us with a foretaste of what is to come. It is the shot across the bow, so to speak, a warning that this is how we will all be treated if we do not tread cautiously in challenging the police state, and it won’t matter whether we’re black or white, rich or poor, Republican or Democrat.

John Whitehead
By John Whitehead
Police officers stand by as buildings are set on fire after the announcement of the grand jury decision, Nov. 24, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.

If you dress police officers up as soldiers and you put them in military vehicles and you give them military weapons, they adopt a warrior mentality. We fight wars against enemies, and the enemies are the people who live in our cities—particularly in communities of color.—Thomas Nolan, criminology professor and former police officer Should police

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World Governments, Spies And Hackers Continue High Tech Cat And Mouse Game

From typewriters to quantum cryptography, governments are exploring old and new ways of keeping information secret.

Angela Waters
By Angela Waters

BERLIN, Germany — When news broke last year that the US National Security Agency had snooped on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s phone calls, Germans were outraged. Then Germany’s BND intelligence service was caught having spied on US Secretary of State John Kerry and his predecessor Hillary Clinton. By the time it emerged in September that the two

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