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The Digital Empire’s Threat to Latin America

Jul 9, 2013
"Every day, hundreds of millions of messages from the entire Latin American continent are devoured by US spy agencies, and stored forever in warehouses the size of small cities," WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange writes in The Guardian on Tuesday. "The geographical facts about the infrastructure of the internet therefore have consequences for the independence and sovereignty of Latin America."

The Chimerica Dream

Jun 21, 2013
With a set of cyber-campaigns -- from cyber-enabled economic theft and espionage to the possibility of future state-sanctioned cyber-attacks -- evolving in the shadows, it’s hard to spin the sunny “new type of great power relationship” President Xi suggested for the U.S. and China at the recent summit.

GOP’s Foreign Policy Unfit for a World Power

Feb 6, 2013
Chuck Hagel's confirmation hearings to become secretary of defense have raised questions about the Republican Party's ability to conduct U.S. foreign policy worthy of a major international player; Hillary Clinton may be responsible for the decline in the use of "Hillary" as a baby name; meanwhile, although President Obama is quite adept at Internet use, his tendency toward waging a "cyber war" is a deficient approach to online security. These discoveries and more after the jump.