Friday, July 29, 2011: On Your Mark, Get Set… Boehner Starts a Run on the Banks?
John Boehner, after fumbling with the starting pistol, and apparently shooting himself in the foot, seems to have managed to fire a shot heard around the world; even if it was more like a fart in the wind than the blast of a canon. Another day of delay on a bill that was nothing more […]
Anonymous and LulzSec Respond to Arrests of Alleged Hacktivists
On Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 14 people were arrested in connection with hacking attacks against PayPal after the company froze WikiLeaks funds and cut off the services for which they had been contracted by the international, award winning, journalism outlet. After intense pressure from governments, individual politicians, financial institutions, and corporate entities whose nefarious activities […]
An Anonymous Social Network: Brilliance or Bollocks?
The first reaction for most is that an Anonymous social network is perhaps the epitome of oxymorons. How can you have a social network when all the participants are anonymous? The answer seems to be, quite easily. If you consider that our given names and physical identity are of no importance in comparison to our […]
Hacking Scandal: Was Rebekah Brooks Arrested to Shut Her Up?
With the issuing of a very rare Sunday arrest appointment, Rebekah Brooks, News International’s recently resigned CEO, was taken into custody by the Metropolitan Police Service only two days before she was to appear before the Culture Select Committee of the British government to give testimony regarding the News of the World Hacking scandal. The […]
Syria: Who Is In Charge, Bashar Al-Assad or Maher Al-Assad?
By Anthony Zeitouni Among all the information coming out of Syria, there are two pieces of news that can give us a clear idea about the political activities on both the government and opposition sides regarding the ongoing crisis in Syria. First, we have the two-day conference organized by the official commission for national dialogue. […]
