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Subject line you type, is in the hands of a system whose reach is unlimited, who safeguards are not. Citizen four. The new film by Laura Poitras provides an inside look at Edward Snowden and his decision to blow the whistle on the National Security agency. We will play excerpts of the remarkable film and speak to Laura Poitras. I hope the film shows the risk these people take and that people should stand up for them and this is the information the public should know. Then, blackwater, guilty. As...

Edward snowden and his decision to blow the whistle on the National Security agency. We will play excerpts of the remarkable film and speak to Laura Poitras. I hope the film shows the risk these people take and that people should stand up for them and this is the information the public should know. Then, blackwater, guilty. As a u. S. Jury convicts four former blackwater guards in connection with the 2007 killing of 14 unarmed iraqis at a baghdad traffic circle, we will speak to Jeremy Scahill, ...

The directors of The Full Monty, In the Bedroom and Michael Clayton pay tribute to the actor, who died on Saturday, along with David Hare, Richard Eyre, John Madden, Jonathan Pryce, Jay Roach, Justin Theroux, Harriet Walter, Cathy Tyson, Christopher Eccleston, Peter Webber and Marion Bailey

Versatile stage and screen actor who won a Bafta for his role as Gerald in the hit 1997 film The Full Monty

This Saturday, join me and Amy Goodman for a live conversation on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Speaking to Computer Weekly after we published new revelations from the Snowden archive, the Guardian’s Pulitzer Prize winner, Ewen MacAskill, explains why more of the Snowden trove is unlikely to see the light of day.

He risked his neck. When Edward Snowden chose to expose the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)s mass surveillance Leviathan, and that of its British counterpart, GCHQ, 10 years ago, he put his life on the line. And he has always declared he has never regretted it. But years after his act of extraordinary courage, the Snowden archive remains largely unpublished.  He trusted in journalists to decide what to publish. In an article published in June 2023, by Guardian Pulitzer prize winner Ewen...

USG falsely claims it defends the UN charter despite the War on Terror and the 2014 Ukraine coup

Ten years on, William Fitzgerald, then a 27-year-old policy worker, tells of his part in the story and explores how tech has changed since

The whistleblower forced US intelligence agencies to admit extensive spying on their own citizens. Some reforms were enacted but Snowden still faces potentially 30 years in prison