Month: October 2020

To mark the one-year anniversary of the first reporting based on information revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on June 5, 2013, privacy advocates, organizations, and technology companies all over the world on Thursday are participating in ‘—an online day of action in which participants pledge to take real steps to protect online freedoms andRead moreRead more

In a victory for fracking opponents, towns in New York today won the right to ban oil and gas production operations from their communities. The ruling may have widespread effects on the drilling industry as towns continue to file moratoriums on the environmentally harmful process. The decision sets a precedent for environmental activists in NewRead moreRead more

WikiLeaks published a previously tightly-held and secretive draft of a trade document on Thursday that, if enacted, would give the world’s financial powers an even more dominant position to control the global economy by avoiding regulations and public accountability. Known as a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), the draft represents the negotiating positions of theRead moreRead more

Rights organizations responded harshly to reports that the National Security Agency and FBI covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans using secretive procedures intended to target terrorists and foreign spies. While the revelations, reported by Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain at The Intercept at midnight Wednesday, are distasteful and reprehensible, they are not particularly surprising,Read moreRead more

New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton announced Wednesday that every member of the department will undergo mandatory retraining on the use of force after the death of Eric Garner, a Long Island man who died in police custody after being put into a chokehold—a move that has been banned since 1993. Garner’s death promptedRead moreRead more

A group of around 25 protesters blockaded and successfully halted construction work at an Enbridge construction site at the pipeline known as Line 9 in southwest Ontario on Tuesday morning. “We hope to stay here indefinitely,” protester Rachel Avery told CTV News. The activists say the Line 9 poses a danger to people, animals, land,Read moreRead more

Peace talks in Cairo collapsed on Tuesday morning after Israeli delegates refused to lift the blockade on Gaza, a key demand of Palestinian negotiators. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have resumed shelling the besieged strip, indicating that the tentative truce is now over. Click Here: cheap sydney roosters jersey As air strikes resumed, AFP reports that thousandsRead moreRead more

A new study warns that the chances of western states in the U.S. experiencing a multi-decade ‘megadrought’—not seen in historical climate records in over 2,000 years—has a much higher chance of occurring in the decades ahead than previously realized. In fact, scientists are warning, the drought now being experienced in California and elsewhere could beRead moreRead more

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Monday that its facial recognition software, Next Generation Identification (NGI), is “fully operational,” cementing the launch of a program that civil rights groups warn could risk turning innocent civilians into criminal suspects. “The IPS facial recognition service will provide the nation’s law enforcement community with an investigative toolRead moreRead more

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Texas health officials confirmed on Tuesday that an individual who recently returned from Liberia to the United States has tested positive for the ebola virus and is now under medical care at a facility in Dallas. The identity of the patient has not been released publicly, onlyRead moreRead more