Espionage is an even more important issue in this age of electronic communication. In the past few years we have learned that no government or institution, ally or enemy, is safe from the intelligence services of the United States. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It is one year since the death of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz, the renowned computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist. People all around the world are remembering Swartz <\/p>\n
Ruair McKiernan <\/p>\n
Social justice campaigner and presidential appointee to Irelands Council of State <\/p>\n
News media should illuminate conflicts of interest, not embody them. But the owner of the Washington Post is now doing big business with the Central Intelligence Agency, while readers of the newspaper's CIA coverage are left in the dark. <\/p>\n
Norman Solomon <\/p>\n
Author, 'War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death' <\/p>\n
We've ended up with a political regime in which arbitrary secrecy remains unchallenged and the news media are timid and frightened, so accustomed to a defensive crouch they can no longer stand up. <\/p>\n
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