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
Don’t Share This! EU’s New Copyright Law Could Kill the Free Internet By Neil Clark, September 24, 2018
Canadians Should Fight for Abousfian Abdelrazik’s Rights as if They Were Their Own – Because They Are By Karin Brothers, September 24, 2018
Shutting Down Free Speech in America: Government and Lobbyists Work Together to Destroy the First Amendment By Philip Giraldi, September 24, 2018
“Pay to Protest” Regulations in America: Charging Fees to Protest on Washington’s National Mall? By Stephen Lendman, September 24, 2018
Emotion Is Supplanting Evidence as the Basis for Truth By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, September 23, 2018
Preventing Palestine: A Must Read History of Failed Peace-Making By James J. Zogby, September 23, 2018
The BJP and the Rise of Fascism in India. The Suspicious Death of Judge Loya By Michael Welch and Radhika Desai, September 22, 2018
Detroiters Fear Losing Their Water May Mean Losing Their Kids By Valerie Vande Panne, September 22, 2018
Gunmen Attack Army Parade in Iran Leaving Dozens Dead By Middle East Eye, September 22, 2018
Kurdish
Syrian Activist Nidal Rahawi Provides Rare Insight into the Deteriorating Conditions in the Northeastern Region By Nidal Rahawi and Sarah Abed, September 22, 2018
China
The Gamification of Tyranny, The Surveillance State. America and China By Kurt Nimmo, September 22, 2018
U.S ‘Crocodile Tears’ for Palestinian Children By Dr. Rafiq Husseini, September 21, 2018
Department of Health and Human Services Lost Track of Another 1,500 Immigrant Children By World Socialist Web Site, September 21, 2018
The Last Earth – A Palestinian Story By Jim Miles, September 21, 2018
ZANU-PF
Zimbabwe Post-Elections Prospects and Challenges By Abayomi Azikiwe, September 21, 2018
Palestine: The Testbed for Trump’s Plan to Tear Up the Rules-based International Order By Jonathan Cook, September 21, 2018
Germany’s Grand Coalition Promotes Far-right Secret Service Chief to State Secretary By Ulrich Rippert, September 21, 2018
Hundreds of Israeli Citizens Sign Letter Expressing Support for Jeremy Corbyn By Communist Party of Israel, September 20, 2018
Suspending the Constitution: In America Today, the Government Does Whatever It Wants By John W. Whitehead, September 20, 2018
Two African Heroes Leave Prison in Rwanda By Ann Garrison, September 20, 2018
The Pathology of Mass Surveillance: The UK, Bulk Interception and the European Court of Human Rights By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 20, 2018
Social Media and The Process of Deplatforming. Germaine Greer By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, September 19, 2018
How the Trump Administration Is Pressuring Palestine By Paul R. Pillar, September 19, 2018
Authoritarian Fordism in Ontario Trumps the Far Right Elsewhere By Leo Panitch, September 19, 2018
Coca-Cola and Nestlé to Acquire Private Ownership of the Largest Reserve of Water in South America? Unconfirmed Report By Amanda Froelich, September 19, 2018
Palestinians Take #GazaToUN Through Social Media By Afro-Palestine Newswire Service, September 18, 2018
The Korean People Alone Must Decide on Their Future By Adam Garrie, September 18, 2018
International Law
The United States’ Disregard for International Law Is a Menace to Venezuela and Latin America By Nino Pagliccia, September 18, 2018
Elections in Pakistan: A Populist Moment? By Ayyaz Mallick, September 17, 2018
Prayers: For Our Sins as Individuals and as a Society By Michael Lerner, September 17, 2018
PLO-UNWRA Meeting: Dr. Ashrawi Meets with UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl By The Palestine Liberation Organization, September 17, 2018
Syria’s Christian City: Seven Years Under Fire at the Idlib Frontline By Tom Westcott, September 17, 2018
CIJA, B’nai B’rith Smear Palestine Activist Instead of Racists, Anti-Semite By Yves Engler, September 17, 2018
Europe Just Voted to Wreck the Internet, Spying on Everything and Censoring Vast Swathes of Our Communications By Boing Boing, September 14, 2018
Venezuelans March to Commemorate Allende, Oppose Coup Threat By Paul Dobson, September 14, 2018
Bid to Starve 2 Million Palestinians into Submission as Trump Repays Zionist Backer Netanyahu for His Presidency By Hans Stehling, September 14, 2018
Censored Documentary Exposes the Israeli Government’s Attack on Black Lives Matter By Max Blumenthal, September 14, 2018
RT
First They Came for Alex Jones, Then for Russian Cable News RT and Syrian TV. Going to War with Russia, Syria, Iran? By Ann Garrison, September 13, 2018
UK Mass Surveillance Ruled Unlawful in Landmark Judgment By Big Brother Watch, September 13, 2018
Toward ‘Fisheries Justice’? The Global ‘Fisheries Crisis’ and How Small-scale Fishers Are Fighting Back By Elyse Mills, September 13, 2018
More Than 1,000 Prisoners Left Behind in Carolinas Hurricane Evacuation By Naomi LaChance, September 13, 2018
Trump Administration Publishes Plans to Tax Protests and Close White House Sidewalk to Protests By Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, September 13, 2018
The White House Countdown Begins for the Death of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) By Motasem A Dalloul, September 12, 2018
Trump Cuts $25m in Aid for Palestinians in East Jerusalem Hospitals By Middle East Eye, September 09, 2018
America
Where’s the Rest of Our Country? America’s Illegal and Immoral Invasions and Occupations By Philip A Farruggio, September 08, 2018
Saudi Arabia
Criticism of Saudi Leadership Seeps Through Cracks as Report Questions Kingdom’s Utility for Britain By James M. Dorsey, September 06, 2018
British government
Once Again, Palestinians Are Shafted by The British Government, Responding to Pressures from pro-Israeli Lobby By Rima Najjar, September 06, 2018
No Wonder Jeremy Corbyn Is Reluctant to be Gagged by the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) Lobby at Westminster By Hans Stehling, September 05, 2018
Mayor of Jerusalem to Stop UNRWA’s Operations By Middle East Monitor, September 05, 2018
As Social Opposition Mounts, Silicon Valley and Washington Step Up Internet Censorship By Andre Damon, September 05, 2018
Open letter From UNRWA Commissioner-General to Palestine Refugees and UNRWA Staff By Pierre Krähenbühl and ReliefWeb, September 04, 2018
Mr. Trump, You Cannot Erase the Palestinian Right to Return By James J. Zogby, September 03, 2018
Crime against Humanity: The Atrocious Conditions and Treatment of Refugees on the Greek Islands By Chris Jones, September 03, 2018
EU Vows to Keep Backing UNRWA After Trump Scraps US Financial Aid for Palestine Refugees By Middle East Eye, September 03, 2018
Palestinians
US Cuts to UNRWA Point to the Dark Future Being Readied for the Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, September 03, 2018
Victory! California Passes Net Neutrality Bill By Katharine Trendacosta, September 03, 2018
The Surveillance Economy and Its Discontents By Alexei Goldstein, September 02, 2018
Google Reportedly Bought Your Banking Data in Secret, and That’s Not Even the Bad News By Adam Clark Estes, September 02, 2018
Freezing Humanitarian Support to Palestine: Trump Administration Pressuring Nations to Stop Funding The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) By Stephen Lendman, September 02, 2018
Trump Regime Halts All Funding for Palestinian Refugees By Stephen Lendman, September 01, 2018
How to Create a U.S.-Backed Government Coup for Fun and Profit! By Lee Camp, September 01, 2018
US Cuts All Funding for UN Agency That Helps Palestinian Refugees By Middle East Eye, September 01, 2018
The Pentagon and Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons By Sara Flounders, September 01, 2018
Israel’s Criminal Blockade of Gaza: Day 30 – Israeli Military Has Still Not Released 114 Boxes of Medical Supplies for Gaza By Freedom Flotilla Coalition, August 31, 2018
US Envoy Haley: Palestinian Right of Return Should be ‘Off the Table’ By Middle East Monitor, August 31, 2018
Banning Chelsea Manning: The Dubious Tests of Character By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, August 31, 2018
Oil Change International Responds to Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal’s Quashing of Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline’s Cabinet Approval By Oil Change International, August 31, 2018
Video: Who Was Pope Francis Before He Became Pope? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky and James Corbett, August 31, 2018
There Is a Burning Need to Rekindle Anti-militarist Political Movements in Canada By Yves Engler, August 29, 2018
Caged! By Philip A Farruggio, August 28, 2018
Improved Medicare for All Becoming Unstoppable By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, August 28, 2018
A Model to Implement Moroccan Development By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, August 28, 2018
US to Announce Rejection of Palestinian Right of Return By Maan News Agency, August 28, 2018
US Aid Cuts Designed ‘to End Palestinians Claims to Jerusalem’ By The New Arab, August 27, 2018
Trump Regime Cuts More Aid to Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, August 27, 2018
Trump Regime to Formally Reject Palestinians’ Right of Return By Stephen Lendman, August 26, 2018
UN Warns “Collapse of Critical Life-saving Services” in Gaza as Emergency Fuel Runs Out By Medical Aid for Palestinians, August 25, 2018
Israel Forces Palestinian to Demolish His Home on His Wedding Day By Middle East Monitor, August 25, 2018
Head of UN Gaza Inquiry Steps Down After Less Than a Month By Kaamil Ahmed, August 24, 2018
Elections and War. A United Front against War and Totalitarian Government By Massoud Nayeri, August 23, 2018