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Included in Evgeny Morozov's book The Net Delusion is a chapter entitled "Why the KGB Wants You to Join Facebook". In it, Morozov describes an example from Belarus in which a university student who was was interrogated found that authorities had mined ...

Scholars of online censorship, like Rebecca MacKinnon at the New America Foundation, worry that SOPA may be popular with the Chinese government as with the copyright holders who are lobbying for the bill. US law already permits the seizure of domestic ...

"Traditionally, Exxon is very litigious," Steve LeVine, professor of energy security at Georgetown University, told Al Jazeera. "This whole exercise is about Exxon sending a signal around the world to anyone who would attempt to mess with their ...

This "allowed Bashar to be seen as someone on the right side of a true 'hot button' issue for most ordinary Syrians," writes Flynt Leverett in his book, Inheriting Syria - Bashar's Trial by Fire. The Syrian constitution had to be amended to allow ...

Sascha Meinrath, director of the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, told Al Jazeera that it is "quite feasible" to access a mobile operating centre remotely, thus able to install backdoors, install software to monitor or manipulate ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - The bursting to life of the Occupy Wall Street movement is the most hopeful development in American politics since Barack Obama was elected president three years ago this month. Obama's election has turned out to be largely a false hope. But that false hope might still be redeemed - and the president motivated to become the reformer he once pledged to be - if the Occupy movement grows into the kind of massive, broad-based, relentless movement no president can afford to ignore.

“The organisation's leaders have worked outside of Syria for over 20 years, it is hard to accurately assess the current level of support within Syria,” Randa Slim, a research fellow at the New America Foundation and scholar at the Middle East Institute ...

Financial journalist Kat Aaron will be in the studio to discuss the state of the global economy. Joining the show via Skype are Brazilian financial journalist Patricia Campos Mello and Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and host of the ...

Deportation was "talked about throughout the deal and that is one of the areas where Hamas has shown greater flexibility," Daniel Levy, a senior analyst at the New America Foundation and former advisor to Israeli cabinet ministers, told Al Jazeera. ...

While DDoS attacks have been likened by some, such as Evgeny Morozov, to sit-ins, and by others, to lockdowns, a defacement is not unlike its real life equivalent: it requires some clean-up, but is nonetheless a temporary measure designed to draw ...