Police State & Civil Rights

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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
Leaked Australian Document Reveals Plans for Mass Surveillance of Immigrants By Max Newman, March 07, 2016
“Urban Warfare Training” and the Militarization of America By Bill Van Auken, March 06, 2016
The Social Crisis in Detroit. On the Verge of an Urban Rebellion By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 05, 2016
US Role in the Assassination of Honduran Activist Berta Cáceres Goes Unmentioned in US Media By Adam Johnson, March 05, 2016
Turkey’s War on Free Expression. Journalists Imprisoned for Doing Their Job By Stephen Lendman, March 05, 2016
The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism By Chris Hedges, March 05, 2016
Twilight of the Idols: Rise and Fall of the Personalist Left. Neo-Liberal Restoration in Latin-America By Prof. James Petras, March 05, 2016
“Privacy Crisis”: Why the FBI’s Case Against Apple is Falling Apart By Shawn Helton, March 04, 2016
Victory of Neoliberalism? Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End? By Claudio Katz, March 04, 2016
Sudanese Journalists Launch Historic Hunger Strike against Free Press Crackdown By Nadia Prupis, March 04, 2016
European Union Threatens Summary Mass Deportations of Refugees By Alex Lantier, March 04, 2016
Confiscating the African American Vote? How the Clinton Media Machine Blocked Sanders Civil Rights Play By WhoWhatWhy, March 04, 2016
Diminishing Democracy: The Australian Senate Changes By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 03, 2016
Call It What It Is: America Is a Police State By Brandon Turbeville, March 03, 2016
German Chancellor Merkel’s Refugee Policy and the Call for a European Army By Ulrich Rippert, March 02, 2016
Haitian People: Let Us Recover Our Dignity By Michel-Ange Cadet, March 02, 2016
500 Signatories Condemn Sweden and UK Over UNWGAD Assange Reaction By Justice for Assange, March 01, 2016
Three South African Universities Closed Due to Student Unrest. ANC Charges “Regime-Change Strategy” Implicating US By Abayomi Azikiwe, March 01, 2016
The Graveyard of the Elites. “Politicians are Little more than Brands” By Chris Hedges, March 01, 2016
Emergence of “Right Sector” in Lithuania? By Adomas Abromaitis, February 29, 2016
The Scandal of Voter Suppression in America By William John Cox, February 29, 2016
Only In America: An Indiscreet Selfie Can Put A Kid In Prison By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 29, 2016
NSA Spying, Privacy and the Fourth Amendment: The Views of U.S. Presidential Candidates By Michael T. Bucci, February 29, 2016
Funding Fictions: Australia, China and the Defence White Paper By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 28, 2016
Coping with Oppression in Canada, Guatemala, Ethiopia, By J. B. Gerald, February 27, 2016
Offshoring Justice: The Fate of Guantanamo Detainee David Hicks, Australia and the UN Human Rights Committee By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 26, 2016
NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Mapping “Political Alignments” of Millions of Smartphone Users Worldwide. By Eric London, February 26, 2016
Torture of U.S. Political Prisoners. A Review By J. B. Gerald, February 26, 2016
Detroit Race Terror of 1863: Emancipation Proclamation and Draft Sparked Riots in the United States By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 26, 2016
Polish Government Expands Police State Powers By Clara Weiss, February 25, 2016
UK Government Proposes to Set Up Muslim-only Jail By Barry Mason, February 25, 2016
Boycotting ‘Unethical’ Companies: New Law Will Enable UK Government to “Dictate Where People Shop” By James Wright, February 25, 2016
Indian Democracy in Crisis: Umar Khalid, JNU Student Leader Charged Under India’s “Laws of Criminal Conspiracy” By Shubhda Chaudhary, February 25, 2016
Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of its Parliament By Jonathan Cook, February 25, 2016
Women’s Rights in the Republic of Ireland: The Politics of Abortion and the Irish National Election By Carol-Anne Hudson, February 24, 2016
U.S. Military White Paper Describes Wearing Hijab as “Passive Terrorism” By Murtaza Hussain, February 24, 2016
Canada: Toward Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. McGill University By Dan MacFadden, February 24, 2016
US, Britain and Canada Endorse Anti-BDS Measures. One Sided Support for Israel By Stephen Lendman, February 24, 2016
Haiti to Sell Offshore Island La Gonâve to Foreign Capital, Transformed into a Tax Haven… By Prof. Beguens Theus and Dady Chery, February 24, 2016
“Israel is Crumbling under Your Watch …The State’s Social Fabric is being Torn Apart”. Open Letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu By Prof. Alon Ben-Meir, February 24, 2016
Race, Gender, and Class Politics in the US Primaries By Prof. Vicente Navarro, February 24, 2016
Manipulating Child Refugees: The Baby Asha Scandal in Australia By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, February 23, 2016
Israel is on the Brink of a Tyranny of the Majority By Jonathan Cook, February 23, 2016
The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 23, 2016
Refugee Crisis: Atmosphere of Pogrom in Germany By Pravda.ru, February 23, 2016
The 1980 Assassination of Historian Walter Rodney Was Carried Out by Guyana Government By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 23, 2016
“The UK should Stay in the EU to Fight Tooth and Nail against the EU’s Anti-democratic Institutions”.Yanis Varoufakis By Yanis Varoufakis and Stuart Brown, February 22, 2016
Israel Torturing Palestinian Journalist Muhammad al-Qiq to Death By Stephen Lendman, February 22, 2016
South African Students Take on Neoliberalism and the ANC By Asad Ismi, February 22, 2016
Argentina: The End of Post Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Hard Right By Prof. James Petras, February 21, 2016
Donald Trump Advocates Shooting Muslims with Bullets Dipped in Pig’s Blood By J.K. Trotter, February 20, 2016
PRISM: The NSA’s Data Collection Surveillance Program By 21st Century Wire, February 19, 2016
Video: How the Greek Crisis Fuels EU Instability By South Front, February 19, 2016
British Democracy Is Dead: Long Live The Ethnic Cleansing With Impunity Of The Palestinian People By Apartheid Israel By William Hanna, February 19, 2016
Petition: For the Immediate Reinstatement of Salah Lamrani to his Teaching Post By Tlaxcala, February 19, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s Hypocrisy on Dissent By Robert Parry, February 19, 2016
Antonin Scalia 2014 Statement, US Supreme Court Justice Declares “Mass Internment Inevitable” By Tom Carter, February 18, 2016
FBI Wins Court Order Forcing Apple to Install Backdoor in iPhone Security Systems By Thomas Gaist, February 18, 2016
Netanyahu’s Racist Incitement, Dehumanizing “Non-Israelis”, Palestinians Designated as “Wild Beasts” By David Sheen, February 18, 2016
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Justice and Injustice, A Life in the Balance: “Mumia Abu-Jamal vs. Kerestes” By Prison Radio, February 18, 2016
America at the Crossroads: Statecraft vs. “Politics as Usual” By William John Cox, February 18, 2016
Lessons From the O.J. Simpson Case for the Presidential Race and the Nation’s Racial Divide By Prof. Marjorie Cohn, February 18, 2016
With Justice Scalia Gone: The Landmark Union Case “Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association” By Shamus Cooke, February 17, 2016
Greatest Threat to Free Speech in the West: Criminalizing Activism Against Israeli Occupation By Glenn Greenwald, February 17, 2016
Israeli Police Detain American Journalists on Spurious Grounds of “Incitement”. Democracy in Israel is Pure Fantasy By Stephen Lendman, February 17, 2016
France, the Police State, and the Intellectual By Catherine Shakdam, February 17, 2016
The Sick Patient: EU between Authoritarianism and Incompetence. Yanis Varoufakis By Yanis Varoufakis, February 17, 2016
African Americans are still Brutally Murdered with Impunity: 70 Years After the Moore’s Ford Bridge Mass Lynching in Monroe, Georgia By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 16, 2016
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Health, Tax, Yemen: Three UK Ministers, A Rudderless Boat, No Paddle. By Felicity Arbuthnot, February 15, 2016
‘Gross Attack on Democratic Freedoms’: Israel Lobby Influences UK Foreign and Domestic Policies By Anthony Bellchambers, February 15, 2016
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Pushes to Remove Constitutional Constraints on Military By Ben McGrath, February 15, 2016
UK to Ban Public Bodies from Boycotting Israeli West Bank Goods By RT, February 15, 2016
Amaral Duclona: Bogeyman of Haiti’s Foreign Occupation By Dady Chery, February 12, 2016
Beyonce and the Politics of Cultural Dominance By Ajamu Baraka, February 11, 2016
US FEMA Detainment Camps By Geopolitical Monitor, February 11, 2016
Palestinians Call on Oscar Nominees to Reject Israel Propaganda Trip By BDS Movement, February 11, 2016
Apartheid in Israel By Anthony Bellchambers, February 11, 2016
Netanyahu Announces Plans for Construction of Huge Security Fence to “Protect Ourselves Against Beasts” By Abra Forman, February 10, 2016
Greek Military to Play Main Role in Setting Up Refugee Concentration Camps By John Vassilopoulos, February 10, 2016
Will Splitting Jerusalem Perpetuate Occupation? By Akiva Eldar, February 09, 2016