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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jun 18, 2013
Chatting about Japan with Snowden, the NSA whistle-blower
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2013
Surveillance controversy illuminated by history
The American public at large is more accepting of the government’s involvement in their lives than a 29-year-old former NSA contractor appears to believe.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2013
Is U.S. still the land of the free?
It is not the United Stasi of America. Nevertheless, one still ought to ask how far one can trust the security and law-enforcement complexes to police themselves.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 13, 2013
Is NSA’s snooping worse than TSA’s groping?
A former NSA contractor who washes up in a Chinese city-state to rail against the state of U.S. privacy doesn’t hold a lot of credibility with many Americans.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2013
U.S. intelligence is too dependent on technology
The National Security Agency, now constructing a massive data-storage facility that presumably will chew through everything we say, needs to be reined in.
WORLD
Jun 7, 2013
U.S. spies track all Verizon calls
The National Security Agency appears to be collecting the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon, one of the nation’s largest phone companies, under a top-secret court order issued in April.
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2009
Coaxing an employment boost
Although Japan’s economy has come through the worst phase of the current crisis, the government’s October economic report shows that the unemployment rate remains high. At 5.5 percent in August, the rate was only slightly better than the all-time high of 5.7 percent registered the previous month. There...

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