Al-Qa’Ida’s Second Act – the Full Five-Part Series

Patrick Cockburn's investigation for the UK Independent into the jihadi resurgence. Part 1: Where the global ‘war on terror' went wrong The US has spent billions of dollars to counter the threat of global terror and succeeded in killing Osama bin Laden three years ago. Yet today, al-Qa'ida-type groups are numerous and powerful. Part 2: Is Saudi Arabia regretting its support for terrorism? Saudi Arabia has been perhaps the jihadists' greatest ally — but will the Kingdom be forced to change...

Edward Snowden: The Biggest Revelations Are Yet to Come

Mashable: Edward Snowden on Tuesday said the biggest revelations have yet to come out of the estimated 1.7 million documents [try 20,000, myna bird] he acquired from the National Security Agency. In a surprise appearance via satellite robot at the 2014 TED conference in Vancouver, Snowden said there is still a lot of reporting to be done, including diving deeper into the accusation that the NSA tricks companies into building backdoors into their systems that make data vulnerable to hackers...