Palestinian men scroll on their smartphones outside a store in Gaza City. The captive population is a ‘testing ground’ for Israel to develop surveillance tools it then exports to repressive regimes around the world.Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

Spy games

Israel is at the forefront of the booming spyware industry that threatens human rights, press freedom and democracy worldwide. Antony Loewenstein examines spyware’s role in Israel’s occupation of Palestine, and why governments are failing to reign in its insidious spread.

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Photo: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo

The lowdown on Viktor Orban

The Hungarian Prime Minister is put under the spotlight.

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One of the unemployed millions: a homeless woman in San Francisco.Franco Folini under a CC Licence

The US is not teetering on the edge of bankruptcy

As Obama ushers in a new debit-limit bill, Mark Engler explains how the argument ‘We’re broke’ is used to justify the demolition of social safety nets.

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