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Snowden and Assange: traitors or heroes?
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Enlarge textDo the conversations surrounding the character traits of Snowden and Assange detract from the real issues at hand?
topWhistleblowers speak up over US surveillance
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transform Taksim Square in Istanbul.
Islam, Blowback and a killing on a London street
Excuse the history lesson. It will be brief.
Hate Crime Murder on a busy New York Street.
Visitors to New York usually know Greenwich Village as a cute part of the city with crooked streets, tiny restaurants, quirky bars, expensive boutiques, and celebrity sightings. Yet, for those who live and frequent there, all of that is true but Greenwich Village has always cultivated a dark underbelly.
Benghazi questions just won't go away
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron met in Washington DC this week to talk about what - or what not - to do with Syria as that country continues to implode and hastens its trajectory toward being a non-country.
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Mike Bloomberg may go down in history as one of New York City’s great mayors when he finally leaves office in November. After 12 years on the job, most people would want to have some kind of favourable place in history. The trouble is that one policy Bloomberg feverishly supports is likely to blight his record.
Identity a theme of Boston aftermath
On April 22, Judge Marianne Bowler convened a hearing of the United States District Court at Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center in Boston.
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