Why are Authorities treating DAPL enviro Protesters like Terrorists?
TeleSur | – – The legal activist group ACLU announced it has filed a motion to quash the warrant, which it argues violates free speech laws. A local police department in the state of Washington has...
View ArticleShadowy US Covert Ops & Surveillance Abroad always Come Home
By Alfred W. McCoy | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – [This piece has been adapted and expanded from the introduction to Alfred W. McCoy’s new book, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline...
View ArticleComey did it to himself & Us, by gutting Privacy, Encryption, & 4th Amendment
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In former FBI director James Comey’s interview with ABC News, he attempted to position himself as an upholder of the rule of law, of the constitution, and even...
View ArticleDrones and Protesters: How High-Tech Surveillance Amplifies Police Bias and...
By Andrew Guthrie Ferguson | – Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has filled social...
View ArticleThe Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a lesson in...
By Margaret Hu | In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and the ouster of the Afghan national government, alarming reports indicate that the insurgents could potentially access biometric data...
View ArticleDid the Pegasus Spyware Netanyahu used against Palestinians and gave to...
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Pegasus spyware made by the Israeli NSO company and backed by the Israeli state has been used extensively against Palestinians to keep them stateless, and former...
View ArticleDoes Mideast Panopticon — Urban Surveillance and Digital Identities —...
By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor) – It has forever been the dream of almost every state, intelligence agency, empire and totalitarian regime to oversee the doings of all of their subjects,...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Document Grab and the Dismantling of Democracy
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Thanks to Donald Trump, secrecy is big news these days. However, as political pundits and legal experts race to expose the layers of document-related misdeeds previously buried at...
View ArticleRed State Plans to Investigate Abortion Seekers and Trans Youth Require...
By Adam Schwartz | – ( Electronic Frontier Foundation ) – In the wake of this year’s Supreme Court decision in Dobbs overruling Roe v. Wade, sheriffs and bounty hunters in anti-abortion states will try...
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