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The digital activist
Global Politics
Meet one of Turkey’s original digital protesters — and see how she’s keeping up the fight for change
People are seen in front of the Hospital Militar (Military Hospital), where six ex-inmates from Guantanamo Bay are being housed in Montevideo, on December 8, 2014.
Global Politics
Six men leave the ‘black hole’ of Guantanamo for new lives in Uruguay
A cyber security analyst works in a watch and warning center at a Department of Homeland Security cyber security defense lab at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Books
A huge intelligence screw-up turned the government and private companies into cyberwarfare partners
A screenshot from a video released by al Qaeda on December 4, 2014, showing hostage, Luke Somers.
Conflict
A failed US hostage rescue attempt in Yemen raises more questions about US policy on hostages
Simon
Culture
We say goodbye to ‘the Nikola Tesla’ of video games
Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez calls his latest album "pure Garifuna."
Music
Music is a ‘weapon to make change’ for this Garifuna guitar player and activist
Amar Bakshi (second from right), the lead artist on the Portal Between Tehran and NYC; and Michelle Moghtader (second from left), the project's development director. Bakshi says his mother and uncle, also seen here, helped out a lot too.
Arts
This New York art installation opens up a new gateway to Tehran
A man in a Guy Fawkes mask smokes while joining supporters of the Anonymous movement taking part in the global "Million Mask March" protests in New York, on November 5, 2014.
Technology
For many geeks, Anonymous is the gateway drug to political and social activism
Members of the All India Mahila Congress, the women's wing of the Congress {arty, carry placards that read, "The country is covered in shame..."  The women were protesting the rape of a female passenger by an Uber taxi driver in New Delhi.
Justice
An alleged rape by an Uber driver is one more sign of India’s gender violence problem
Canadian John Maguire in ISIS recruitment video
Conflict
A Canadian jihadist calls for ‘lone-wolf’ attacks on domestic targets
The drone operator.
Conflict
You fly over foreign lands, maybe kill people, then drive home for dinner
The Cyber Warrior
Conflict
Meet the hacking prodigy you definitely want on your side