After looking everywhere and which a way, I am at a loss. I am looking for a short story with a near future high tech anarchy as background-- something that resembles David Brin's concept of The Transparent Society , Utopian Version, where every body knows everybody else's business--as opposed to, s...

Congress has apparently listened to the public's complaints about lack of convenient access to government data. The new Omnibus Appropriations Bill includes a section, introduced by Rep. Mike Honda (D-California), that would mark the first tangible move toward making federal legislative data availab...

In a long-overdue move, the U.S. government has finally smashed Swiss bank secrecy laws by prevailing upon the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to give up the names of hundreds of Americans who have used those laws to evade billions of dollars in taxes.  In fact, given President Obama’s d...

It's another example of the huge gap between what the leftist news media tells the public and the actual truth. I refer to the news coverage of an agreement between UBS, the battered Swiss banking giant, and U.S. government prosecutors announced on Wednesday. A subhead in The New York Times screams:...

We hold no special brief for the now humbled Swiss banking giant, UBS, but one must feel some small sympathy for the continued public pain inflicted on them, no doubt with glee, by relentless congressional inquisitors on behalf of the U.S. Senate's resident anti-tax haven scold, Senator Carl Levin (...

Meet the new boss — same as the old boss: In a closely watched case involving rendition and torture, a lawyer for the Obama administration seemed to surprise a panel of federal appeals judges on Monday by pressing ahead with an argument for preserving state secrets originally developed by the ...

Graphic via Caribdude at The Agonist. As I wrote over the weekend, progressives who really hoped the Obama administration would roll back the Bush years' secrecy over illegal renditions and torture were waiting with intense interest to see what would happen in a key court case today. Five men were s...

What is the effect on the wider society of a tremendously wealthy, worldwide cult such as the International Sathya Sai Organization? In the coming days and weeks, this spot will contain major breaking news. First, some background - especially for more recent readers. As we have seen, outstanding in...

Cyber-security is an ongoing issue for any enterprise these days, but the defense sector is more of a target than most. Britain’s Ministry of Defence has been finding this out the hard way... [summary]...

O.K., so the headline is not exactly accurate, but it did catch your eye. And if one David Cay Johnston has his perverse way, it would be a statement of fact. Indeed, Johnston seriously calls for a U.S. declaration of war not only on the Cayman Islands, but also Bermuda and other offshore tax haven....