What kind of literature might emerge in Burma, post-censorship? James Byrne, co-editor of the Burmese poetry anthology Bones Will Crow, reports on how government reforms are changing the literary landscape for writers and publishers, and how the rosy future of Burmese literature is really just a “surface reality.”
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Joshua Oppenheimer talks about his academy award-nominated documentary, The Act of Killing, which focuses on the Indonesian killings of 1965–1966. He also discusses interviewing the death squad leaders and the culture of violence that keeps the past hidden in Indonesia.
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Though Facebook has over 1.23 billion users around the world, these 10 countries have political leaders who don’t want their citizens to have access to the site, or who have banned it amid fears that it could be used to organize political rallies.
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Editorial cartoonist Julio Carrión Cueva (Peru) on the self-censorship case of fellow Ecuadorian cartoonist Bonil (Xavier Bonilla) who was forced by a “Gag Law” and president Rafael Correa to retract and publish a new sanctioned version of a cartoon critical of government.
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If you live in Cuba, Iran or Sudan, and are using the increasingly popular online education tool Coursera, you have likely encountered some access difficulties since the week of January 27. Coursera has been included in the US export sanctions regime.
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A new International Consortium of Investigative Journalists report lists over 21,000 people in China and Hong Kong – among them military and political leaders – with secret offshore holdings. Did China imprison activists and dissidents writers to divert attention from the corruption scandal?
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In this video, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman talks to Rainey Reitman about today’s anti-surveillance campaign protest: “The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance.” Reitman is the activism director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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