The Secret War Against Iran
“A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and …
Ultra-Green urban skyfarming of the future
New York Magazine has a spectacular spread on one man’s vision: a cluster of 30-story towers on Governors Island or in …
Under the Influence: How Lobbyists Wrote and Bought the Rx Drug Bill
60 Minutes tells the story of how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists literally wrote the historic Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and twisted …
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Vista’s Speech Recognition
One of Vista’s coolest features is (ironically) one nobody talks about. Speech recognition is built into every copy of Vista, …
AG Gonzales Questions Habeas Corpus
by Robert Parry In one of the most chilling public statements ever made by a U.S. Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales …
Twenty computers missing from US counter-nuke intelligence office
The office involved in this breach has a special responsibility: tracking and countering efforts to steal information on nuclear weapons. …
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The Once and Future Republic of Vermont
By Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan, The Washington Post Sunday, April 1, 2007 The winds of secession are blowing in …
The most important computer theorist you’ve never heard about
A scholarly essay in 1947, says CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper, had an awful lot to say about how we live …
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George Orwell’s Home Surrounded By Surveillance Cameras
Use of spy cameras in modern-day Britain is now a chilling mirror image of Orwell’s fictional world of ‘1984’. On …
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Net neutrality and the FCC: what’s being done to preserve it
In an era defined by free information exchange via the wide open, largely unregulated internet, the concept of federal bodies …
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Hacking Your Five Senses
See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap …
The Floating City of the Year 2000 (from 1979)
Do you ever wonder what happened to all of those bright-eyed, optimistic visions of a clean, utopian future that technology …
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