The US human rights policy is officially bankrupt, but now is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to turn things around and reform US standing on the global sphere
Former US President Jimmy Carter has said that he sends letters via traditional post rather than email to try and avoid the prying eyes of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Revelations about the underhand tactics used by the NSA to track millions of innocent people continue to flow with the report from Glenn Greenwald’s website The Intercept claiming that the security agency attempted infect the computers of millions of people with malware as part of a programme called “Turbine”.
In his first live public appearance since leaking thousands of classified intelligence documents and fleeing to Russia, Edward Snowden has accused the NSA of “setting fire to the future of the internet”.
The Nobel Peace prize often courts controversy, with both US President Barack Obama and the European Union (EU) winning the prize in the past, but with the ongoing crisis in Ukraine many have been left confused with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reported nomination for the prize.