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Inside Boxun, China's media muckraker

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Last week, U.S. web hosting company Name.com received an email ordering them to stop hosting Boxun, a Chinese news portal run out of North Carolina. Boxun , which has the same retro, link-heavy feel as Craigslist...

Published Thu, Apr 26 2012 3:39 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: East Asia, China

Why Syria Is the Most Dangerous Place To Be a Journalist

For the second year running, more journalists have been killed in Syria than anywhere else in the world, according to a report released Monday by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In 2013, 29 were killed there in the course of reporting; in...

Published Mon, Dec 30 2013 8:53 AM by FP Passport

Guess Romney won't be getting the Pravda endorsement

The once proud Communist Party propaganda arm-turned-supermarket tabloid/LOL-aggregator unloads on the GOP frontrunner : Electing Mitt Romney as the next President of the United States of America would be like appointing a serial paedophile as a kindergarten...

Published Wed, Mar 28 2012 2:40 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Ukraine's ex-President Pledges to Keep Fighting

Ukraine's ex-President Pledges to Keep Fighting Top News : Ukraine's ex-President Viktor Yanukovych made his first public appearance since being ousted on Saturday. Speaking at a news conference in Russia, Yanukovych said he intends to "keep...

Published Fri, Feb 28 2014 6:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Iran Is Deploying Drones in Iraq. Wait, What? Iran Has Drones?

Ed Snowden Needs a Better Biographer Than Glenn Greenwald

Why did Edward Snowden betray the National Security Agency and leak a huge trove of secret documents to the media? It's a question that has been endlessly debated since stories based on those documents began to appear in the media during the summer...

Published Wed, May 21 2014 7:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media, Intelligence, National Security, NSA, Snowden

Do other countries have debt clocks?

Republican convention organizers may not have been able to accomplish much business on Monday, but they did make one dramatic statement: activating two prominently displayed clocks that will measure the national debt and how much that debt has accumulated...

Published Tue, Aug 28 2012 12:40 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012

Morning Brief: Assad says Syrian government needs time to "win the battle"

Assad says Syrian government needs time to "win the battle" Top news: Amid surging violence in Aleppo and Damascus, Syria's two largest cities, President Bashar al-Assad made a rare television appearance in which he said the government needs...

Published Wed, Aug 29 2012 5:57 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Michael Phelps now has more medals than 148 countries

Shortly after Michael's Phelps supposedly "disastrous" defeat in the 200m butterfly to South Africa's Chad le Clos today, he collected his 15th gold in 800-meter freestyle, giving him a record 19 total career medals . Phelps has now...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2012 4:18 PM by FP Passport

Medvedev: I may run for president again

Hope springs eternal, I guess : “I am not an old politician yet,” Medvedev said in an interview with the Times newspaper in London where he attended the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on July 27. The Times published the interview on Monday. “I...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2012 11:05 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Obama begins Africa trip as continent awaits news of Mandela

Obama begins Africa trip as continent awaits news of Mandela Top news: U.S. President Barack Obama began his long-awaited Africa trip on Thursday as the continent holds its collective breath over the fate of Nelson Mandela. Speaking in Dakar, where he...

Published Thu, Jun 27 2013 5:47 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Sorry, Obama, Soccer Balls Won't Bring Progress to Africa

President Barack Obama generated a feel-good photo-op on Tuesday in Tanzania when he took a few moments to play with the Soccket , an ingenious soccer ball that can power an LED light for three hours after you kick it around for 30 minutes. Simply play...

Published Tue, Jul 02 2013 9:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Africa, Development

Iran gains upper hand in ice cream cold war with United States

Iran may have just scored a massive, albeit largely symbolic, victory in its cold war with the United States. And it is a very cold war -- because the battle being waged is over ice cream. On Monday, the Iranian ice cream company Choopan appeared to unseat...

Published Tue, Apr 02 2013 10:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Politics, Middle East, Food/Agriculture, Iran, Cool

Adieu, Stéphane

Stéphane Hessel, the French author and activist who was among FP 's Global Thinkers in 2011 -- our oldest thinker yet, but no less spirited for it -- died Tuesday in Paris at the age of 95. Hessel's is a remarkable life story: He was raised in...

Published Thu, Feb 28 2013 9:55 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe

Going to war over tourism

Frequent FP contributor Micah Zenko looks at the motivations for Kenya's latest incursion over the border into Somalia: The invasion was initially justified as a response to three kidnappings of westerners in northern Kenya over the past month. Two...

Published Thu, Oct 27 2011 2:21 PM by FP Passport

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Inside Boxun, China's media muckraker

Why Syria Is the Most Dangerous Place To Be a Journalist

Guess Romney won't be getting the Pravda endorsement

Morning Brief: Ukraine's ex-President Pledges to Keep Fighting

Iran Is Deploying Drones in Iraq. Wait, What? Iran Has Drones?

Ed Snowden Needs a Better Biographer Than Glenn Greenwald

Do other countries have debt clocks?

Morning Brief: Assad says Syrian government needs time to "win the battle"

Michael Phelps now has more medals than 148 countries

Medvedev: I may run for president again

Morning Brief: Obama begins Africa trip as continent awaits news of Mandela

Sorry, Obama, Soccer Balls Won't Bring Progress to Africa

Iran gains upper hand in ice cream cold war with United States

Adieu, Stéphane

Going to war over tourism