Just a few short months after John Kerry disingenuously congratulated Egypt’s military junta for “transitioning to democracy”, the young students who helped galvanize the 2011 Egyptian Revolution are back protesting its increasingly draconian rule.
Steven Salaita, whose contract for tenured professorship was abruptly terminated by the University of Illinois last September for tweets critical of Israel, filed a federal lawsuit seeking reinstatement and damages and alleging violations of free speech and due process rights.
For 30 years, James Bamford obsessively documented the secretive National Security Agency. For the first time, he tells of his turn as an NSA whistleblower.
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