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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Murtaza Hussain

Murtaza Hussain is a journalist and political commentator. His work focuses on human rights, foreign policy and cultural affairs and has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Salon and elsewhere.

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Murtaza Hussain

Privacy Lost

Understanding the implications of the new surveillance state May 2016
Before the summer of 2013, when United States National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents proving the U.S. government had been conducting mass surveillance on its citizens and others, the mechanics of America’s post-9/11 security architecture were almost completely opaque. Snowden’s leaks shone new light on a security architecture the government had been building in…