Police State & Civil Rights

Facebook
What very few people know is that Facebook was officially partnering with the Atlantic Council in the form of an “election partnership […] to prevent [their] service from being abused during elections.” Indeed, the US midterm elections are only a couple of weeks away, so the Atlantic Council and its Digital Forensic Research Lab are now going at it with full force,
The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do
Mass media portray Islamic societies to be intolerant of other’s religious and ideological persuasions. Authentic Islam—as contained in the pristine revelation of the Qur-an—promotes tolerance, harmony, and goodwill of all peoples despite their differences.
Let us share the wealth, and not poverty! Let us put an end to social inequality! We demand the immediate increase in salaries, welfare benefits, allowances and pensions, and the unconditional right to housing and health, education, free public services, for all
Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Failed Coup Attempt Almost Pushed the Country to the Edge of Collapse By Andrew Korybko, June 25, 2019
As Conflict with Iran Escalates, Path to Peace Can be Found By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, June 24, 2019
“Violent Voyeurism”: Surveillance, Spyware and Human Rights By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, June 24, 2019
Report Highlights Mistreatment of Refugee Children in US Internment Camps By Fred Mazelis, June 24, 2019
Ongoing Genocide and the Plight of Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Internationally By Michael Welch and John Schertow, June 23, 2019
Escalating Color Revolution: The “Georgian Dream” Might Turn into an American Nightmare By Andrew Korybko, June 21, 2019
The Jackboots Are Coming: Mass Arrests, Power Grabs and the Politics of Fear By John W. Whitehead, June 20, 2019
Eternal Builder of Dreams and Hopes: Marta Harnecker (1937 – 2019) By Marta Harnecker and Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, June 19, 2019
US Teachers’ Strikes: A New Class Politics Emerging By Eric Blanc, June 18, 2019
Medical IDs: Enemy of Privacy, Liberty, and Health By Rep. Ron Paul, June 18, 2019
Citizenship and Partisan Gerrymandering: US Supreme Court Ruling on Census Could Deal Grave Blow to Democracy By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, June 17, 2019
US Government, NGOs Fuel and Fund Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protests By Alexander Rubinstein, June 14, 2019
A Life Well-lived: Reforming the Bank of Canada. William Krehm Passes Away at 106 By Bryant Brown, June 14, 2019
Insidious Discrimination Against the Roma Is Europe’s Shame By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra, June 13, 2019
Asylum-Seeking Children from Central America Suffer Multi-Dimensional, Recurrent, Sustained Trauma By Physicians for Human Rights, June 11, 2019
Repeal the Espionage Act By Jacob G. Hornberger, June 11, 2019
The Omnipresent Surveillance State: Orwell’s 1984 Is No Longer Fiction By John W. Whitehead, June 11, 2019
Neoliberal Economics and Workers Rights in Ontario: One Million More Reasons to Mobilize Against Ford By Prof. Jeff Noonan, June 10, 2019
Somebody’s Watching You: The Surveillance of Self-Driving Cars By Luis F. Alvarez León, June 10, 2019
Has Serbia Lost Kosovo? Why President Hashim Thaçi Needs Another Conflict with Serbia By Rostislav Ishchenko, June 10, 2019
Tightening the Noose on Cuba By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, June 08, 2019
Internet Free Speech All but Dead By Philip Giraldi, June 08, 2019
Election? What Election? The EU Elite Will Censor Their Way Out of this Mess By Helen Buyniski, June 07, 2019
You’re Under Arrest: How the US Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power By John W. Whitehead, June 07, 2019
‘We Will Soon Pray There’: Israeli Minister Urges Jewish Settlers to Enter Al-Aqsa (The Temple Mount) By Middle East Eye, June 06, 2019
EU Sued at International Criminal Court over Mediterranean Migration Policy – As More Die at Sea By Maurice Stierl, June 05, 2019
Hey Trump: Remember Wikileaks? By Rep. Ron Paul, June 04, 2019
Strange Defenders: Assange and the Press By George Szamuely, June 04, 2019
The Murdering of Julian Assange By Peter Koenig, June 04, 2019
Hands Off Venezuela! Resolution of the Solidarity Event in Berlin on May 28, 2019 By International Rosa Luxemburg Conference, June 03, 2019
US Forces in Syria Causing Catastrophic Effects on Civilians Held in Rukban Concentration Camp By Arabi Souri, May 31, 2019
The Hangman of the Middle East: US-backed Regime in Egypt Hands Down Nearly 2,500 Death Sentences By Bill Van Auken, May 31, 2019
US Hints at Sanctions Against Venezuela CLAP Food Programme. Bolivarian Militia to Protect CLAP By Paul Dobson, May 31, 2019
‘Criminalizing Compassion’: Trial Begins for Humanitarian Facing 20 Years in Prison for Giving Water to Migrants in Arizona Desert By Jessica Corbett, May 31, 2019
Detroit’s Water Austerity: Lack of Household Water, Contamination, Potential Public Health Crisis By Julia Kassem, May 29, 2019
Speeding into the Void of Cyberspace as Designed By Edward Curtin, May 29, 2019
The Decline of Jamaica’s Trade Union Movement in the Era of Capitalist Globalization By Tina Renier, May 29, 2019
DHS Is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement By Naureen Shah, May 28, 2019
Palestinian Economic Development Under Zionist Settler Colonialism By Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh, May 27, 2019
Predatory Corporations in South Africa: The Lonmin Mining House and the 2012 Marikana Massacre By Prof. Patrick Bond, May 27, 2019
Oppose Doug Ford’s Ontario Schools Budget By Dudley Paul, May 27, 2019
Trump Regime Demand for Palestinian Surrender. Washington’s “Peace Process” is a Colossal Hoax By Stephen Lendman, May 27, 2019
America: Land of Exceptional, Indispensable Psychosis By Kurt Nimmo, May 26, 2019
Marginalizing Migrants and People of Colour Within the Labour Movement: Dialogues on Race and Class By Michael Welch, Abayomi Azikiwe, and Chris Ramsaroop, May 26, 2019
Oiling the Wheels of Injustice. Indigenous Communities in the Amazon By Khaled Diab, May 23, 2019
Defunding UNRWA: Trump’s Legal Sleight of Hand against Palestine By Rima Najjar, May 23, 2019
Bombing Black People: The Philadelphia Police’s War on MOVE Global Research News Hour Episode 129 By Michael Welch and Linn Washington, May 22, 2019
62 Organizations to U.S. Congress: Pass Legislation to Halt a “March to War” with Iran By NIAC Action, May 22, 2019
Israel’s War Criminals in Their Own Words By Philip Giraldi, May 21, 2019
‘Secrecy’ Clause for Britain’s New Environment Watchdog By Catherine Early, May 21, 2019
Julian Assange Suffered Severe Psychological and Physical Harm in Ecuadorian Embassy, Doctors Say By James Risen, May 21, 2019
Understanding NATO, Ending War By Robert J. Burrowes, May 20, 2019
Unlawful Arrests of Venezuelan DC Embassy Protectors Symbolic of US Decadence By Stephen Lendman, May 19, 2019
1919 Winnipeg General Strike: Lessons for Creating a Better World in 2019 By Michael Welch, John Clarke, and Leo Panitch, May 19, 2019
Netanyahu’s Acts of Provocation and Destruction Including Violence against Civilians Constitute Both a War Crime and Terrorism By Hans Stehling, May 17, 2019
Canada Joins the Authoritarian Censorship Agenda By Kurt Nimmo, May 17, 2019
US Illegally Evicts Protectors from Venezuelan Embassy By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, May 17, 2019
Venezuelan Embassy: Peace Activists Put US Mission on Notice By Lauren Smith, May 16, 2019
During Nakba Commemoration Protests: “Israeli Forces Wound 144 Palestinian Civilians, Including 49 Children, 4 Women and 1 Paramedic” By IMEMC, May 16, 2019
Israel Was Forced on Palestinians . Trump Deal is a US Rubber Stamp of the Status Quo By Rima Najjar, May 15, 2019
Ten Points on Palestine’s Nakba and ‘Israel’s’ Illegitimacy By Dr. Vacy Vlazna, May 15, 2019
‘Music of Dead, Bombed-out Buildings Must be Heard’ — Gaza Artists Hold Anti-Eurovision Concert in Building Destroyed by Israeli Attack By Ahmad Kabariti, May 15, 2019
Justice Prevailed.Threats Directed against Arab-Americans By James J. Zogby, May 15, 2019
Modern Merchants of Death: Spyware and Human Rights By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, May 15, 2019
Trump Intent on Erasing Palestine By Elson Concepción Pérez, May 14, 2019
Tel Aviv Is Afraid of “The Axis of Resistance” By Prof. Tim Anderson and The Syria Times, May 14, 2019
The Deal of the Century: Trump Team and Netanyahu Conspire to Sell out the Palestinians By Philip Giraldi, May 14, 2019
Why ‘Anti-imperialist’ in the U.S. Still Means ‘Paid for by Russia’ By Black Alliance for Peace, May 14, 2019
We Take to the Streets of Tel Aviv to Demand an End to the Siege on Gaza By Gush Shalom, May 14, 2019
Israel ‘Has Arrested over 50,000 Children Since 1967’ By The New Arab, May 13, 2019
More People Displaced Inside Their Own Countries than Ever Before By Norwegian Refugee Council, May 13, 2019
The Zionist Idea Has Never Been More Terrifying than It Is Today By Rima Najjar, May 11, 2019
Rockets Remind the World of the 12-Year Blockade of 1.8 Million Gazans By Hans Stehling, May 11, 2019
Deal of the Century Adds “New” to the Four Thousand Year Old Name “Palestine” By Miko Peled, May 11, 2019
Named: The People Killed in Gaza and Israel this Weekend By Middle East Eye, May 07, 2019
Cuba’ Decree on Culture and the Catch-All American “Freedom of Expression” Mantra By Arnold August, May 07, 2019
Embassy Protection Collective: We’re Still Here and We’re Staying By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, May 07, 2019
Documents Expose How Hollywood Promotes War on Behalf of the Pentagon, CIA and NSA By Tom Secker and Matthew Alford, May 07, 2019
Saving the World’s Nature and Biodiversity By Forest Peoples Programme, May 06, 2019
Gaza
Israel Has No Right of Self-Defense Against Gaza By Norman Finkelstein and Jamie Stern-Weiner, May 06, 2019