• Fire In The Sky
    Fracking Fire in the Sky

    By Michael Barajas via SA Current Off-duty San Antonio cops directed a thick swarm of traffic outside the Panna Maria community center in sleepy Karnes County one evening last December. Blue-shirted Marathon Oil representatives beamed, greeting more...

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  • Free Binayak Sen
    The Indian Journalist’s Conflict

    By Annurag Batra via Exchange 4 Media All kinds of stories have emerged about Liyaqat Ali Shah, even as National Investigation Agency (NIA) is all set to probe the curious case of the Kashmiri militant. The latest...

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  • Get Out Of Hell Free
    Exiled After Threats: Blogger Wants More Freedoms in Morocco

    By James Kirchick via Der Spiegel After coming out as a secularist in Muslim Morocco, blogger Kacem El Ghazzali became the subject of harrassment and death threats. At a time when many young people go to college,...

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  • Pickpocket
    Missing the Story

    By David Cay Johnston via American Journalism Review Journalists are missing one of the biggest stories in America: the saga of how new laws and regulations are promoting monopolies, duopolies and oligopolies, to the massive detriment of...

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  • Paper Trail Trial
    Call For Journalist Protection Amid Legal Threats

    By Alison Caldwell via ABC There are fresh calls for a national legislative approach to protect journalists and their sources. One of the basic tenets of journalism – always protect your sources – is being challenged with...

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  • Skinhead
    Why I Fear the Aryan Brotherhood—and You Should, Too

    By Anonymous via Daily Beast Law enforcement officers may have a real problem on their hands. They’re being tight-lipped about it, but it’s something they should have been aware of for decades. They had to see it...

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  • 2D Printed Gun
    Click, Print, Gun: The Inside Story Of The 3D-Printed Gun Movement

    By Erin Lee Carr via Vice Being a 3D-printing novice, I was once somewhat skeptical of the promise behind what’s being billed as a truly game-changing technology. I saw Makerbot CEO Bre Pettis on the cover of...

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  • Women Are Kuwaiti Too
    Mona Kareem on Blogging and Dissent in Kuwait

    By Mona Kareem via Jadaliyya [This post is part of an ongoing Profile of a Contemporary Conduit series on Jadaliyya that seeks to highlight distinct voices primarily in and from the Middle East, North Africa, and South...

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  • Guatemalan Soldiers
    The Case of American Journalist Nicholas Blake and the Right to Truth

    By Renata Avila via Al Jazeera It all started with a phone call. A cold voice on the other side, reporting that their eldest brother was missing in the mountains of Guatemala. As an investigative journalist working...

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  • No Connection
    Yeah, We Broke the Internet: The Inside Story of the Biggest Attack Ever

    By Eli Lake via Daily Beast It’s still unclear who is behind one of the biggest attacks in Internet history, one that’s disrupting service for millions of users and has created an information superhighway traffic jam across...

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