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
The Dangers of Fracking Waste By Dr. Wendell G. Bradley, December 11, 2017
ICAN Statement on Nobel Peace Prize 2017 By International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, December 11, 2017
Peaceful Protest against the Joint US-Australia Pine Gap “Spy Hub”: The Fate of the “Pine Gap Pilgrims” Activists By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 09, 2017
South Yemen Will Regain Independence If It Follows These Six Steps By Andrew Korybko, December 09, 2017
124 Jewish Studies Scholars on Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration By Stephen Lendman, December 09, 2017
Israel Uses Live Fire Against Palestinian Protesters By Stephen Lendman, December 08, 2017
Ontario’s Election 2018: The Minimum Wage Hike and the Battle over #Fightfor15 By Quinton Ascah, December 08, 2017
Rage in Occupied Palestine By Stephen Lendman, December 08, 2017
Video: Slavery and NATO’s Libya Legacy By Robin Philpot and RT News, December 08, 2017
Can the American Left be Resurrected? By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 07, 2017
Christian Community Responds: Open Letter to President Trump from Jerusalem’s Thirteen Heads of Churches By Patriarchs and Heads of Local Churches in Jerusalem, December 07, 2017
Honduras in Flames By Prof. Aaron Schneider, December 07, 2017
Muslim World Outrage While Trump Gloats over Jerusalem Decision By Stephen Lendman, December 07, 2017
Walking into Armageddon By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, December 06, 2017
Politicized Olympism: Banning Russia from the 2018 Winter Games By Stephen Lendman, December 06, 2017
Trump Tax Cut Plan Will Devastate Public Education By Patrick Martin, December 06, 2017
Protests Planned Nationwide as Vote on FCC’s ‘Catastrophic’ Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Looms By Jake Johnson, December 05, 2017
Washington Post’s One-Sided Cheerleading for Coup and Intervention in Venezuela By Adam Johnson, December 05, 2017
Canada’s Healthcare Funding Falls, Again By Doug Allan, December 05, 2017
No Money for Needy Children’s Healthcare in America By Stephen Lendman, December 05, 2017
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery: Learning from Angerona, Cuba By Nora Fernandez, December 04, 2017
Jackboots in the Canadian Academy. Freedom of Expression and Inquiry Under Threat … Again. By Robin Mathews, December 04, 2017
The Not-So-Subtle Art of Protesting: Artists and the Public Space By Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin, December 04, 2017
Long Hours and Unequal Wage Gaps in Japan: Abe Shinzō’s Campaign to Reform the Japanese “Way of Work” By Shinji Kojima, Prof. Scott North, and Charles Weathers, December 03, 2017
Volunteers Create Worlds By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, December 02, 2017
Regime Change: Will Macedonia be Removed from the Map in 2018? By Andrew Korybko, December 02, 2017
Argentina Government Blocks Civil Society Attendance at WTO Summit in Buenos Aires, Critique of Neoliberalism Banned? By Friends of the Earth International, December 01, 2017
The US Congress Won’t Allow Palestinians To Complain to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Regarding Israel’s Land Theft and Settlements in the Occupied Territories. By James J. Zogby, December 01, 2017
The Imperialist Destruction of Libya. Impasse at the Fifth European Union-Africa Summit By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 30, 2017
Supreme Court Hears Landmark Case: Big Brother Society, CIA, NSA, FBI Spying on Americans By Stephen Lendman, November 30, 2017
Lawsuit Aims to Uncover How Government Surveils Journalists, Targets Them with Surveillance By Trevor Timm, November 30, 2017
We Will Not be Complicit in Israel’s System of Apartheid By Sawsan Bastawy, November 30, 2017
Hurricane Harvey Three Months On: Tens of Thousands Still Homeless from Worst Natural Disaster in US History By Joseph Kishore, November 30, 2017
Privatized Transport: Social Inequalities and the Neglect of Public Transit By James Wilt, November 29, 2017
Israel Plans to Block Arabs from Living in 1,000 Neighbourhoods By Middle East Monitor, November 29, 2017
Waiting for the American Dream By Edward Curtin, November 29, 2017
Farmers Storm India’s National Capital, Demanding Freedom from Debt and Better Price for Their Produce By Via Campesina, November 29, 2017
Subverting Authoritarianism by Empowering Learners and Democratizing Education By Anthony C. Clemons, November 28, 2017
The Responsibility of Freedom. Block the Despots. Turn the Tide of History By Julian Rose, November 28, 2017
The Dark Inevitability of Zionism By Prof. Lawrence Davidson, November 27, 2017
Glyphosate
Massive Citizen Initiative Demands Ban of Monsanto’s Glyphosate in All 50 States By Marcus Dorsum, November 27, 2017
Will Trump’s Telecom Deregulation & NAFTA Talks Undermine Net Neutrality in Canada? By Brent Patterson, November 27, 2017
Video: Treatment of Native Americans by Colonialists. Marlon Brando Denounces Fake US History By Marlon Brando, November 27, 2017
Libya Slave Trade Shows How Africans Are Treated as Subhuman By Fred Muvunyi, November 27, 2017
Trump Wants Welfare in America Ended By Stephen Lendman, November 26, 2017
FCC Commissioner Begs Nation to Stop GOP Colleagues from Killing Net Neutrality By Andrea Germanos, November 26, 2017
A Less than Modest Proposal to End the War in Yemen. “I am Writing This on Thanksgiving Eve” By George Capaccio, November 26, 2017
CNN Breaks Story on Slave Trade in Libya; French Government Voices Concern for African Migrants By Gerald A. Perreira, November 26, 2017
Wall Street’s Border Wall. How Five Firms Stand to Benefit Financially from Anti-Immigrant Policy By MaketheRoad.org, November 25, 2017
Violence against Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Manus Island and the Clearing of Lombrom Naval Base By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 25, 2017
Quebec Independence: National Struggle and Class Struggle, Complementary or Contradictory? By André Frappier and Richard Fidler, November 24, 2017
Devastation of Ancestral Lands in Peru’s Amazon. 6000 Hectares of Forests Destroyed, Converted to Palm Oil Plantations By Forest Peoples Programme, November 24, 2017
Robert Mugabe Resigns as President of Zimbabwe By Chris Marsden, November 22, 2017
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience in Protest Against Coercive Flu Shots (Without Informed Consent) By Samantha C. and Dr. Gary G. Kohls, November 22, 2017
India’s Health Crisis: State Hospitals’ Neglect Aggravates Crisis in the Clinics of the “All India Institute Of Medical Science” (AIIMS) By Rajat Mishra, November 22, 2017
A New Movement of Rights and the Right in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 21, 2017
Bring Hassan Diab Home. Release ordered by French Judge Overturned By Hassan Diab Support Committee, November 21, 2017
Dissent Under Attack by Government and Corporations By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, November 20, 2017
Trump Administration Threatens Palestinians By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2017
The Student Loan racket: Defaulting on Student Loans Can Mean Loss of Jobs By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2017
Massive TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Oil Spill By Stephen Lendman, November 19, 2017
Uncontacted People Still Being Massacred in Amazonia By Lewis Evans, November 17, 2017
The Catalonia Independence Movement By Josep Maria Antentas and Dan La Botz, November 16, 2017
Why Are Police in the USA So Terrified? National Crisis: The Routine Killing of Innocent Civilians by the Police By Robert J. Burrowes, November 15, 2017
The Expensive Affirmation: Australia Says Yes to Same Sex Marriage By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 15, 2017
Friends of the Earth Slams Developed Nations for Blocking Urgent Pre-2020 Climate Action By Friends of the Earth International, November 14, 2017
The ISIS-Daesh Killing Field: A Letter from Iraq – Grief, Forgiveness, and 20 Million Pilgrims By Pepe Escobar, November 12, 2017
Retrospect on the Moon-Trump Summit, South Korean Anti-Trump Protests By Zoom in Korea, November 12, 2017
The Korean People: We Are Desperately Afraid By Hye min Kim, November 11, 2017
New Mass Resistance as Spanish State Jails Catalan Ministers By Dick Nichols, November 11, 2017
Councils in UK Invest £16.1 Billion in Fossil Fuels. By Brendan Montague, November 10, 2017
The Tragic Declaration: Colonial Legacies, Balfour and Israel By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 10, 2017
The Trump-US House of Representatives $4.6 Trillion Tax Cut: Who Pays? By Dr. Jack Rasmus, November 10, 2017
Outrageous Wealth Disparity in America. 400 Richest More Wealth than Bottom 64% By Stephen Lendman, November 09, 2017
The Attack on ‘Fake News’ Is Really an Attack on Alternative Media By Dave Lindorff, November 09, 2017
The UN and Genocide by Starvation in Somalia By Thomas C. Mountain, November 09, 2017
Bring in Legislation to Make Pro-Israel Lobbyists Register as ‘Foreign Agents’ By Hans Stehling, November 08, 2017
South Koreans Greet ‘Warmongering Trump’ with Clear Message: ‘Shut Up, Get Out’ By Jake Johnson, November 08, 2017
In a World of Propaganda, Lies, and Self Deception: Reviving the Spirit of Existential Rebellion By Edward Curtin, November 05, 2017
The Deepening Crisis on Manus Island, Australia’s Refugee Detention Centre By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, November 05, 2017