According to Kevin Poulsen at Wired, the reconstituted Wikileaks now requires its employees to sign a confidentiality agreement that includes a $20 million penalty for disclosing internal Wikileaks documents. Why? Not to protect anonymous sources or informants named in documents, but to protect Wikileaks' commercial...
Author: Charli Carpenter
AfPak Channel reports US counter-terrorism officials have revealed some of what they've found in OBL's diary: U.S. counterterrorism officials said yesterday that the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama.
This nerdtacular snapshot (Starbuck and Starbuck in Starbucks) is making the rounds again today. For original context see comments thread here. H/T Sang Ngo.
What office hours can be like (a painfully humorous diversion from grading for academic readers and contributors). H/T to Stacie Goddard and Tom Burke. via
So far I am a tad disappointed by HBO's rendition of George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones series. Granted, I've only just watched the pilot so far, but what's.
Material like this post from GSGF on the Foreign Policy site. Not because I agree with Courtney Messerschmidt's take on OBL... nope. And not at all convinced she speaks "for.
Someone recently asked me whether, in the wake of the Richard Goldstone's qualifications of his infamous report, the UN was losing its credibility to issue fact-finding studies on humanitarian law violations. In my view, no matter how "credibly" a study is conducted and by whom,...
I'd have posted this excellent video earlier (courtesy MomsRising.org and Moveon.org) but I've been too busy today enjoying breakfast in bed, chocolates, handmade cards, the good feeling that came from.
"I do too know what a pay-phone is! That's one of those booths in the library where you can pay to go in and use your cell-phone, right?" Let's face.
When Twitter began exploding last Sunday night in the run-up to Obama's big speech, one of the first things I did was set the tweet-harvester my husband has invented to start collecting all tweets on the hashtags #OBL and #Bin Laden. My thought was to...
In the wake of the jubilant response to bin Laden's killing, it is heartening to see such a quick discussion erupt over its legality. The State Department has released its.
Though it's political significance has since been overshadowed by recent events, Lara Logan gave a remarkable interview on 60 Minutes last night about her assault during the Egyptian revolution. This.