Category: Obama

13/09/2013 edward snowden | human-rights Feitosa-Santana

How Laura Poitras helped Edward Snowden

How Laura Poitras, who responded to an anonymous email from Edward Snowden, helped him reveal secret NSA documents By Peter Maass “”Last January, Laura Poitras received an anonymous email asking her to send her her public encryption key. Laura had been working on a documentary about surveillance and espionage for nearly two years now, and […]

02/07/2013 edward snowden | Edward Snowden Brazil | Edward Snowden Democracy | Edward Snowden Exile | Edward Snowden Freedom | Edward Snowden Hero | Edward Snowden NSA | Edward Snowden Wikileaks | moscow airport | political exile | politics | Snowden Evo Morales | Snowden Manning Assange | symbols of democracy Feitosa-Santana

About Snowden: I speak as an American Resident and as a Brazilian Citizen.

Today, I feel an orphan. Today, I am ashamed to be an American resident as well as a Brazilian citizen. Today, Brazil does not represent me. Today, my nation has decided to ignore the fact that Edward Snowden is asking for political exile. Today, my nation is ignoring that Snowden is one of the most […]

23/11/2012 Abolition of Slavery | black and whites | Cinema | current-events | dialogues | fair opportunity | fair share | inequality | Lincoln the Movie | politics | society | White vs. Black Feitosa-Santana

Lincoln, the Movie

Very difficult dialogues in an old-fashioned English with a very strong accent, “Lincoln” is not an easy movie but worth watching with astonishing Day-Lewis (Lincoln) and Lee-Jones (Stevens) performances. What is even more impressive is to realize that even after 150 years post the abolition of slavery, we are now discussing the fair opportunity in […]