Quoted: "The authors have extensive international experience of researching and teaching crisis management. Their excellent book provides a concise and insightful account of state-of-the-art policy practise and research on crisis management in the post 9/11 period."

There's probably better reporting on this than the BBC...

Quoted: Peers are to consider proposed new laws for England and Wales to deal with what campaigners are calling modern-day slavery.

This is the most affected back-cover blurb ever.

Quoted: With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at the age of thirty in a miserable attic in Paris.

From Riseup:

In June, the Canadian federal government introduced two bills into parliament with the goal of bringing law enforcement into the 21st century [1]. One bill requires new internet, wireless, and other telecommunication equipment and software to include surveillance capability, and the other will require service providers to quickly provide identifying subscriber information to law enforcement without any judicial authorization.

Even within the narrow confines of liberalism, this is incredibly idiotic for a simple reason: due to the nature of digital networks, if you require the equipment to facilitate "lawful" intercept, you also enable the ability to conduct mass surveillance. This is akin to installing a police camera in every room in our homes, but then hoping that the police exercise self restraint and never turn the cameras on. This is not a viable strategy for the longevity of our social movements.

Quoted: Government Of Canada Introduces Legislation To Fight Crime In The 21st Century

Images, video, and written reports from the summit protests and their aftershocks around pittsburgh

Quoted: Live coverage of the Pittsburgh G20 summit from the pittsburgh independent media center

Accounts from Pittsburgh

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The public sphere the enlightenment always promised us--in action. BOO-YAHH!

Quoted: Todd Stroger better watch out for icephoenix.

Quoted: Nation contributor Max Blumenthal captures the protest's atmosphere of ignorance by interviewing the rally's most delusional attendees.