Homosexuals are welcome in Russia, says Russian President Vladimir Putin, less than a month before the start of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The gesture is reportedly an effort to deflect rising international criticism that the county’s policies are anti-gay. Russia enacted controversial anti-gay legislation last year that banned non-traditional sexual activities among minors and made […]
Obama’s NSA speech did not address enough reforms
Acknowledging global and domestic criticism of the NSA’s spying activities triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations, US President Barack Obama in his address Thursday made an effort to rein in the Orwellian outreach of the surveillance program. Did Obama’s NSA speech say enough to assure Americans and the world that the NSA’s powers will be curtailed […]
Ariel Sharon: A war criminal or peacemaker?
Ariel Sharon, Israel’s most controversial politician and undoubtedly one of the cruelest, died Saturday at the age of 85 after a eight years in coma. The darling of the far-right, notorious for his cut-throat attitude on the battlefield and wanton disregard for Palestinian lives, leaves behind a hapless Israel-Palestine peace process. Instilled with zeal to […]
NASA finds ‘Hand of God’ in space
An image dubbed as the “Hand of God” generated by a telescope overseen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has captured the imagination of astronomers and space explorers. The captured image is actually a cloud of material ejected by an exploded star. Reportedly, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) recently captured the image, […]
Obama invites Merkel to US after NSA spying row
Edward Snowden’s disclosure of NSA spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel triggered a furious reaction and strained relations between Berlin and Washington. In a call Wednesday, President Barack Obama invited Merkel to Washington, apparently to mend ties between the two historic allies. Th president reportedly offered the invitation when he called Merkel to wish […]
A look at NSA surveillance and civil liberties
The Edward Snowden episode that exposed NSA’s PRISM program provided compelling evidence that the communication technologies that people use nowadays are invasive by design and giant online databases are searchable by anyone in the absence of defined regulation. In fact, data revolution threatens to strip citizens of much of their control over their personal information […]
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