Tag Archives: politics

21/07/2013 1984 George Orwell | Aldous Huxley Admirable New World | Cinema | edward snowden | entertainment | House of Cards | human-rights | internet | Orange is the New Black | politics | society | technology Feitosa-Santana

Netflix: The Big Brother and the Entertainment Manipulation

by Kate Epstein The Snowden leaks and ensuing debates about our government, big data, and privacy have led to more Orwell allusions than I’ve heard in all of my (admittedly post-1984) life. It’s hard not to compare the constant surveillance of twenty-first-century America to the ubiquitous presence of Big Brother in the prescient 1949 novel. […]

17/07/2013 Bradley Manning Defense | Bradley Manning Trial | human-rights | middle-east | Occupy Wall Street | politics | pretrial confinement | society | technology | whistle blowers | Whistleblower Future Feitosa-Santana

Bradley Manning is My Hero

“I want people to see the truth, because without it you cannot make informed decisions as a public” – by  Bradley Manning. “On June 3rd, after more than 3 years of pretrial confinement, military whistle-blower and democracy advocate Bradley Manning will go to trial for “Aiding the Enemy,” a capital offense that could open future whistle-blowers to […]

13/07/2013 Girls like Malala | Pakistan Human Rights | Pakistan Swara | Pakistan Women | politics | society | South Asia Girls Feitosa-Santana

Malala’s Forgotten Sisters – by Adriana Carranca

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, Pakistan — At only 12, Nazia lives in expectation of the worst. As I step through the doorway of the humble compound her parents share with two other families in the Pashtun lands of northwest Pakistan, her small, fragile body trembles unwittingly. She knew I was coming, but learned too young to trust no […]

12/07/2013 Bradley Manning Defense | Bradley Manning Trial | current-events | human-rights | politics | Whistleblower Future | Yochai Benkler Feitosa-Santana

Bradley Manning’s Defense

Star Witness Yochai Benkler at Bradley Manning’s Defense: “On the final day of Bradley Manning’s defense’s case, Harvard Law Professor and renowned scholar Yochai Benkler testified about how the Internet has transformed journalism’s function in a democracy and why WikiLeaks should be considered a legitimate news organization that is devoted to exposing corruption. He testified that […]