The following event took place on 27 April in the US:
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How a Jew managed life inside prison with neo-Nazis
Fascinating and disturbing story (via the US-based Southern Poverty Law Centre) about the largely ignored reality of skin-heads, white pride members and bigots inside US jails: David Arenberg had everything going for him. He was smart, the son of a research scientist and a teacher. He graduated in 1980 from the elite University of Chicago…
Big data: “the planet developing a nervous system”
Fascinating look at where information and the collecting of it (for journalism, medicine etc) may lead (via Sully Dish):
We kill, drone and bomb Muslims and we wonder why some hate us?
Powerful column in the UK Independent by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: First, read this unconditional acceptance of facts that cannot be denied nor excused. Islamicist terrorism has inflicted atrocities and diffused panic and amorphous, long-term anxiety from east to west, south to north. Citizens of Nairobi and Baghdad, Madrid and London, Bamako and Dar es Salaam, New…
How the CIA funds Afghan corruption
Welcome to the insane US-led war in Afghanistan (via New York Times): For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the… Central Intelligence Agency. All told, tens of…
Wikileaks has right to raise funds for vital work
Reporters Without Borders hails an important legal decision: Reporters Without Borders hails a ruling by Iceland’s supreme court on 24 April ordering Valitor — Visa’s local partner in Iceland — and formerly called Visa Iceland — to resume processing online donations to WikiLeaks within two weeks or thereafter pay a daily fine of 6,830 dollars…