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
Basic Income in the Neoliberal Age. Ontario Coalition against Poverty By Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, January 14, 2018
Disgruntled Soldiers Stage Another Mutiny in Ivory Coast By Abayomi Azikiwe, January 14, 2018
Congo: A Neocolonial Project Managed by the UN Security Council By Ann Garrison and Dr. Jean-Claude Maswana, January 13, 2018
Political Insanity By Mark Taliano, January 13, 2018
Canada Should Play Conscientious Role in Korea By Prof. Graeme MacQueen and Christopher Black, January 13, 2018
The Role of The Pro-Israel Lobby in US Politics By Hans Stehling, January 12, 2018
Trump Moves Toward Requiring Medicaid Recipients to Work By Stephen Lendman, January 12, 2018
Gallup: U.S. “Well-Being” Declines Under Trump, Especially for the Poor By Eric Zuesse, January 12, 2018
Staff and Global Partner of United Church Join Peacemakers to Encourage Peaceful Dialogue on Korean Peninsula By Women Cross DMZ, January 12, 2018
To Liberate Cambodia By Robert J. Burrowes, January 10, 2018
Corporate Mining in Latin America is the Source of Social Conflict: “The Andes now Resembles a War Zone” By Mario Pérez-Rincón and Nick Meynen, January 10, 2018
Israel Bans Members of 20 Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Groups from Entering Israel By 2018 Sail to Gaza, January 10, 2018
Sixteen Year Old Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi By Jonathan Cook, January 09, 2018
Nepal: Communists Win Parliamentary Elections by a Landslide, Celebrations in Katmandu By Farooq Tariq, January 09, 2018
US to Deport 262,000 Salvadoran Immigrants By Patrick Martin, January 09, 2018
North Korea: Deafening Silence Around the Moon-Putin Plan. One Possible Path To Peace By Joseph Essertier, January 09, 2018
Afghan Refugees Feeling the Heat as US-Pakistan Geopolitical Tensions Rise By Ali Mohsin, January 08, 2018
The landmark handshake between Juan Manuel Santos and Timoshenko, with two helping hands from Cuban President Raul Castro. (Justice for Colombia).
170 Social Leaders Killed in Colombia in 2017: Report By Telesur, January 08, 2018
Ukraine’s Future Nazi Leader? By Oriental Review, January 07, 2018
Yes, Palestinians Teach Their Children to Hate the Jewish State By Rima Najjar, January 07, 2018
Iran and the Left: A Dissenting View By Reza Fiyouzat, January 07, 2018
China’s Tibet Health Success versus Passive Mass Murder of Afghan Women and Children by US Alliance By Gideon Polya, January 07, 2018
2017 Year in Review. The Most Censored International, Indigenous and Canadian Stories. By Michael Welch, Andy Lee Roth, and John Schertow, January 06, 2018
National Improved Medicare for All Making Progress. Medicare for Everone By Margaret Flowers, January 06, 2018
Student Debt Slavery II: Time to Level the Playing Field By Ellen Brown, January 06, 2018
‘Focus’ on the Neo Nazi Revival By Philip A Farruggio, January 06, 2018
Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship By World Socialist Web Site, January 06, 2018
Governments and Corporations Escalate Internet Censorship and Attacks on Free Speech By Andre Damon, January 06, 2018
Social Media: Censored, Blocked, Suspended. Expect Even Less Freedom of the Internet in 2018 By Philip Giraldi, January 05, 2018
Iran at a Dangerous Crossroads By Peter Koenig, January 05, 2018
Medical Evacuations in Syria, Deal between Syrian Government and the Terrorists By Steven Sahiounie, January 03, 2018
Jewish Identity Politics and the Struggle to Liberate Palestine By Rima Najjar, January 03, 2018
Trump Threatens to Cut US Funding for Palestinian Refugees By Stephen Lendman, January 03, 2018
Gangs, Race and Melbourne By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, January 03, 2018
Israel Seized 2,500 Acres of Palestinian Land in 2017 By Days of Palestine, January 03, 2018
Israeli Raids and Violence: Crowded West Bank Refugee Camp Is the Most Tear-gassed Place in the World By Sheren Khalel, January 03, 2018
Prospects for Cuba’s Revolution in 2018 By Arnold August, January 03, 2018
George Orwell and Trump’s “Seven Forbidden Words” By Prof. Lawrence Davidson, January 02, 2018
Israel Ruling Party Votes for Push to Annex Parts of West Bank By Middle East Eye, January 01, 2018
Power to the People! Remember John Lennon By John W. Whitehead, January 01, 2018
Working Class Protest, Popular Revolt and Urban Insurrection in Argentina: The 1969 Cordobazo By James P. Brennan, January 01, 2018
Cops Killing Kids Has Got to Stop! By Dave Lindorff, December 31, 2017
Bassem Tamimi Honors His Courageous Young Daughter Ahed, Imprisoned by Israel’s Rubber Stamp Military Court By Stephen Lendman, December 30, 2017
Moving Toward a Police State (or Have We Arrived?) By Michael Ratner, December 30, 2017
Palestinian Christians and Muslims living in the Holy Land. A Christmas Message to Vice-President Mike Pence By James J. Zogby, December 29, 2017
Preparing for the Coming Transformation. Power of the People By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, December 28, 2017
Catalonia: The Independence Movement Resists, But Without Clarifying Its Strategy By Marti Caussa and Richard Fidler, December 28, 2017
Whither the Anti-war Movement? By Daniel Martin, December 28, 2017
Homeland Security’s Multibillion Dollar Comedy Show By James Bovard, December 28, 2017
The Child Who Knows Too Much About Cruelty in this World By Yvonne Ridley, December 27, 2017
Syrians Are Human Beings. “The West Seeks to Fabricate Sectarianism in Syria” By Mark Taliano, December 27, 2017
How Trump Ruined Christmas for Palestinian Christians By Alex Shams, December 27, 2017
Polls Increasingly Confirming that America Is a Dictatorship By Eric Zuesse, December 26, 2017
UN Vote: Middle East Christians Blast US Decision on Jerusalem By Joyce Chediac, December 26, 2017
Australia’s Refugee Hub and the Politics of Manus Island: Responsibilities and Contracts By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 26, 2017
The Year the Open Internet Came Under Siege: 2017 Year in Review By Katharine Trendacosta, Jeremy Gillula, and Ernesto Falcon, December 26, 2017
Facebook Handing over More Info to US Government: ‘This Is What Facebook Was Designed to Do’ By Mac Slavo, December 24, 2017
Former President Manuel Zelaya and Honduras’ Alliance against the Dictatorship: Open Letter to the American People By Manuel Zelaya, December 23, 2017
Ahed Tamimi Is Part of the Palestinian Generations R – for Return By Rima Najjar, December 23, 2017
Spanish Options to Thaw a Frozen Conflict in Catalonia By Adam Garrie, December 23, 2017
Drug Deaths Drive Down US Life Expectancy for Second Year By Eric London, December 23, 2017
Understanding North Korea By Dr. Robert Rennebohm, December 23, 2017
Release Political Prisoners in South Korea By The Korean Committee to Save the Victims of ‘Lawmaker Lee Seok-ki Insurrection Conspiracy Case', December 23, 2017
Pro-Independence Parties Keep Majority Control over Catalan Parliament By Stephen Lendman, December 22, 2017
When Police Kill White People By Margaret Kimberley, December 22, 2017
The Death of Academic Freedom: Prof James Tracy Denied First Amendment Rights by Federal Court By Vivian Lee, December 21, 2017
Brexit Lobby Meetings Dominated by Big Business, Civil Society Marginalised By True Publica, December 21, 2017
“Build a New Social and Economic System with Human Rights and Justice at its Core”. Jeremy Corbyn By Jeremy Corbyn, December 21, 2017
Journeying to Korea’s Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, December 21, 2017
Urgent: Hassan Diab Needs Your Help! By Hassan Diab Support Committee, December 20, 2017
Latin America: The Political Pendulum Swings to the Right By Prof. James Petras, December 20, 2017
Hungary-Ukraine Relations: Transcarpathia and the “Western Front” By Andrew Korybko, December 19, 2017
Communists Sweep the Nepali Elections, a Blow to the Establishment Parties By Prof. Vijay Prashad, December 19, 2017
Team Trump Add Insult to Injury for the Palestinians By Jonathan Cook, December 19, 2017
Why Netanyahu Is Upset About UN Security Council Resolution 2334: The Total Illegality of Israel’s Settlements By Karin Brothers, December 19, 2017
Why Don Quixote? Solidarity and Cuba’s “Medical Internationalism” By Prof Susan Babbitt, December 18, 2017
Trump Administration Censorship: Banning Seven Words By Stephen Lendman, December 18, 2017
Creating the 21st Century Internet By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, December 17, 2017
Christmas Gift-Buying and the West’s Consumer Society: An Advent Calendar to “Beat the Devil” By Edward Curtin, December 16, 2017
Resistance and Reality: The Plight of Syrian Refugees Detained in Greece’s Samos Island By Chris Jones, December 15, 2017