Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, co-founder of the popular ‘Pirate Bay’ file-sharing website, has been arrested in Cambodia. Warg was wanted by Sweden on copyright infringement charges after failing to report for a yearlong prison sentence. Authorities arrested Warg in Phnom Penh,… Read More ›
Sweden has cancelled an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on accusations of rape and molestation. The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but… Read More ›
Sanctions Also Mean No Refunds, Blizzard Confirms by Jason Ditz The World of Warcraft’s players are gearing up for a new expansion pack to be released next week, but they’ll have to do it without Iranian players, as Blizzard, the… Read More ›
British Foreign Office Says Committed to Dialogue by Jason Ditz Ecuador President Rafael Correa is reporting that Britain has formally withdrawn its threat to attack the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, saying that his government “consider this unfortunate incident over.” Britain’s… Read More ›
The racist group takes to the streets at night carrying torches. They organize via text message so that authorities won’t know where they’ll appear next. A German neo-Nazi group has been harnessing 21st century technology to stage terrifying flash-mob protests… Read More ›
Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had written a number of things… Read More ›
By Stephen Gowans Syrian government forces may or may not have been responsible for the killing of 108 civilians at Houla. Witness accounts point to militias that may have been acting independently of the Syrian government. One account describes the… Read More ›
You know SOPA and you know CISPA, so you might think you have a good handle on crazy Internet legislation. You might think you’ve seen the crazy stuff, but unless you’ve seen Thomas F. O’Mara’s bill S06779, you ain’t seen… Read More ›
BY NATASHA KORECKI When the NATO Summit in Chicago was still on the horizon, a group of self-proclaimed “hacktivists” was gearing up. A member of AntiS3curityOPS, which has taken credit for taking the City of Chicago’s website offline on Sunday,… Read More ›
After the Los Angeles Times publishes two pictures, American officials denounce the actions of troops photographed with dead insurgents and their body parts. By David Zucchino and Laura King From the White House to the American Embassy in Kabul, American… Read More ›
by Newsone Staff George Zimmerman, 28, the man charged with murder in the second degree for the February 26 shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, has been called many names in the past weeks, but “DatNiggy” wasn’t one of them…. Read More ›
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