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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

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…