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A small computer screen is shown in a dark room with Edward Snowden appearing in a close-up frame.
Global Politics
Snowden and his wife seek to be Russian-US dual nationals
Four white men in suits sit on a panel with a green background
Critical State
Legislating peace and security: Part II
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had To See Online This Week
A hooded man sits on a computer in front of a screen of code.
Conflict
A new ‘cyber Cold War’ unfolds
Journalist Glenn Greenwald
Media
Brazil, Snowden, Russia and fake news: a conversation with Glenn Greenwald
Demonstrators hold placards during a protest in London on April 9, 2016. British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday he should have handled scrutiny of his family's tax arrangements better and promised to learn the lessons after days of negative
Behind the Panama Papers
Full Episode
Brazilian activists hold Snowden masks
Technology
‘Privacy isn’t dead:’ Snowden’s South American legacy grows as Brazil’s crypto movement marches on
Oscar noms
Arts
Global themes dominate this year’s Oscar nominations
Edward Snowden urges the US to go on defense in cyberwarfare
Global Politics
In a rare interview, Snowden urges the US to play defense, not offense, in cyberwarfare
A man assembles police observation cameras near the Bayerischer Hof hotel before the start of the 50th Conference on Security Policy in Munich on January 31, 2014
Technology
The year of surveillance is finally over
Arts
Here’s your chance to stand next to Julian Assange — kind of
A man uses his phone to read updates about former American NSA contractor Edward Snowden answering users' questions on Twitter.
Technology
To see the changes Edward Snowden wrought, just look at your smartphone
The Leaker - Edward Snowden
Media
I’m not Edward Snowden, I just play him on TV
Protesters hold masks depicting former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden during a demonstration in Berlin on May 22, 2014. The sentence on the shirt reads, "What has happened to revolution?"
Arts
Laura Poitras’ new documentary tells the Edward Snowden story — with some free computer lessons thrown in
In Novemeber of 2009, Eric Holder announced that the accused mastermind of the September 11th attacks, and four other top terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, would be prosecuted in criminal courts.
Justice
Eric Holder will resign, leaving a mixed legacy on national security issues
Pussy Riot is a feminist punk guerilla performance collective. Their unauthorized public performances address feminism, LGBT rights, and opposition to Russian President Putin.
Global Politics
Pussy Riot wastes no time in getting back to activism
An anti-government protester kicks a surveillance camera during clashes with police in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on February 7, 2014.
Conflict
What keeps you awake at night?
A protester in Russia waves a Facebook flag.
Global Politics
As Snowden looks on, Russia cracks down on Internet freedom
NSA
Global Politics
Why is the US government spying on this Muslim American lawyer?
Rebekah Brooks
Conflict & Justice
Here’s what a court in London decided on the News of the World’s phone hacking scandal
Rebekah Brooks
Conflict & Justice
Here’s what a court in London decided on the News of the World’s phone hacking scandal
Glenn Greenwald attends the George Polk Awards in New York, April 11, 2014. Greenwald and Laura Poitras, the U.S. journalists who reported on spy agency analyst Edward Snowden's leaks exposing mass government surveillance, returned to the United States on
Global Politics
Glenn Greenwald blasts government critics of Edward Snowden
Global Politics
What will Edward Snowden talk about in his American primetime TV debut?
The Pentagon
Global Scan
A top secret Pentagon report into top secret leaks gets out
A combination photo shows the five Chinese military officers who the U.S. has accused of cyber espionage. Top row: Sun Kailiang (L), Huang Zhenyu (R), bottom row L-R: Wen Xinyu, Wang Dong and Gu Chunhui in FBI released photos.
Conflict & Justice
China isn’t happy, but where does the cyber spat with the US go from here?
One topic of discussion between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping when they met in California last summer was cyber espionage.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The Obama administration has put China on notice — with indictments for cyber espionage
Rubik's cube doole by Google
Arts, Culture & Media
I’ll never think of Rubik’s Cube in the same way again, after Snowden
Edward Snowden
Global Politics
Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004
Edward Snowden
Global Politics
Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004
Journalists listen to a question posed by former US spy agency NSA contractor Edward Snowden, at a media center during Russian President Vladimir Putin's live broadcast nationwide phone-in.
Global Politics
Does Russia spy on the communications of millions of individuals?
Journalists listen to a question posed by former US spy agency NSA contractor Edward Snowden, at a media center during Russian President Vladimir Putin's live broadcast nationwide phone-in.
Global Politics
Does Russia spy on the communications of millions of individuals?
Russian skateboarders in Serov's central square. "I've got nothing against America," one of them says. "They've got some great skaters in the US."
Conflict & Justice
Putin is popular in Russia, but so is American culture
Snowden
Environment
Edward Snowden was bigger than a rock star at his SXSW panel today
Feb 18 violence in Kiev
Global Scan
The Ukrainian government moves to violently shut down the Kiev protest
A picture of Edward Snowden, a contractor at the National Security Agency (NSA), is seen on a computer screen displaying a page of a Chinese news website.
Development & Education
Scottish students elect Edward Snowden as rector of Glasgow University
Global Politics
The story of Edward Snowden is so unbelievable, sometimes you forget it’s nonfiction
Global Scan
A Russian billionaire offers to help save the dogs of Sochi
obama COP 15
Environment
Did NSA spying give the US an edge at the Copenhagen climate conference?
Global Scan
A Nobel Peace Prize for Edward Snowden?
Global Scan
Sochi Olympics will have security on full display
Beck snow art
Global Scan
This artist is taking snow angels to an extreme
Global Politics
Edward Snowden is OK with what he’s given up to start a debate on surveillance
Global Scan
At this Christmas, Santa will be looking somewhere new for many refugees
Edward Snowden
Global Politics
A White House advisory panel suggests 46 ways to rein in the NSA
Global Scan
What happens when you’re proudly gay and proudly Sikh?
Germany's Reichstag building pictured though a flag depicting former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Conflict & Justice
Edward Snowden extends a helping hand to Brazil, hoping for asylum
Global Politics
Don’t expect Brazil to offer Snowden asylum
NSA and Santa cartoon
Global Scan
So just where will the NSA stop?
Global Scan
Just who is the real threat to North Korea’s future?
Phone Booth
Global Politics
So what if the government tracks my phone calls?
"Don't Blab" warns this Soviet-era poster.
Global Politics
Snowden revelations lead Russia to push for more spying on its own people
Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger carries a copy of the book Spy Catcher as he arrives at Parliament to face questions over his publication of intelligence files from Edward Snowden.
Global Politics
The British editor who published the Snowden files defends his newspaper before Parliament
Satellite dishes at Britain's spy agency GCHQ, close to where trans-Atlantic fibre-optic cables come ashore in Cornwall. GCHQ has tapped fibre-optic cables that carry international phone and internet traffic and is sharing vast quantities of personal info
Global Politics
Why the British shrug at government surveillance… It’s Bond. James Bond
Spy Camera
Global Politics
Author David Wise explains how electronic surveillance has made all that’s old new again in spycraft
Global Scan
Censorship? It’s as bad as ever in Egypt
Global Scan
What might have happened if Kennedy had lived?
Senator Ron Wyden
Global Politics
The Snowden leaks gave a senator the chance to openly question the NSA
Australia's prime minister Tony Abbott
Global Politics
Australia’s spy service has its own embarrassing moment, thanks to Snowden
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Kevin Rudd
Global Scan
In Indonesia, not even the NSA is listening
Global Scan
When does extinct not really mean extinct?