By DAVID SCHARFENBERG
Since he began writing a column for the New York Times eight years ago, Nicholas D. Kristof has become the closest thing we have to a voice of conscience on human rights abuses around the world.
His latest book, co-written with his wife Sheryl WuDunn, is the well-received Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into [...]
by Kaomi Goetz
The Obama administration may be trying to mount a case against digital finger-imaging of federal food assistance applicants, a practice four states are implementing in order to combat fraud.
Anti-hunger workers say it discriminates against the country’s poor and treats them like criminals when they are entitled to benefits.
New York City is one of [...]
Insurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from unmanned American drone aircraft, US media reports say.
Shia fighters are said to have used off-the-shelf software programs such as SkyGrabber to capture the footage.
The hacking was possible because the remotely flown planes have an unprotected communications link.
Obtaining such video feeds could provide insurgents with information [...]
By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. Posted December 14, 2009.
By making paranoia part of pop culture, writers like Dan Brown have made a fortune. Then again, maybe he belongs to a secret cabal.
The paranormal pops up everywhere these days. In the last week, two different people have warned me against Ouija boards. In [...]
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