Human Rights

Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized
25 April 2013

by Anthony Gucciardi Is water a free and basic human right, or should all the water on the planet belong to major corporations and be treated as a product? Should the poor who cannot [...]

Surveillance Society: Met Police Spying On 57,000 People A Year
20 April 2013

by Mick Meaney, Contributor Today disturbing new figures have renewed accusations that Britain has turned into a surveillance society, raising more concerns over increasing levels of police surveillance powers. The data obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the [...]

Leak Shows US Hid The Truth About Drone Strikes
12 April 2013

by Mick Meaney, Contributor New evidence has emerged that proves the US intentionally lied about the true nature of its controversial drone strike operations. The leaked intelligence documents reveal that the US has been targeting individuals who [...]

Majority of Americans want marijuana legalized
05 April 2013

For the first time, the majority of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, indicating a shifting public opinion in regards to the government’s criminalization of drug use. The new survey, which was conducted by [...]

Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013
07 March 2013

by Birgitta Jónsdóttir February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia [...]

Last meals of innocent people sentenced to death
18 February 2013

An emotional new ad campaign from Amnesty International asks its viewers to stomach a hard truth -- images of the last meals of wrongly executed American prisoners. [...]

Congo’s M23 conflict: Rebellion or resource war? (Op-Ed)
20 January 2013

M23 rebels in DR Congo have threatened to march to the capital and depose the government. UN reports confirm that rebels receive support from key US allies in the region, and Washington’s role in [...]

Woman gets $250,000 settlement after being thrown to the ground, hogtied by police while pregnant
19 January 2013

Tamara Gaglione was recently paid $250,000 in damages for being pulled over for talking on her cellphone, after which she was thrown to the ground and hogtied by California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers on [...]

US Military suicides continue to climb, reaching record in 2012
15 January 2013

The US Military’s suicide rate grew a startling 15 percent in 2012. The Pentagon, which has put great effort into lowering military suicide rates, has acknowledged that battle casualties are no longer the primary [...]

Kuwait gives tweeter 2 years’ jail for ‘criticizing’ rulers
12 January 2013

A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a youth activist for allegedly defaming the country’s ruling emir on Twitter. The opposition tweeter is the second person to fall foul of a recent government crackdown on social [...]

EPIC obtains documents on NSA Perfect Citizen program monitoring private U.S. computer networks
12 January 2013

by Madison Ruppert The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has finally obtained documents on the Perfect Citizen program, run by the National Security Agency (NSA), which monitors private computer networks in the United States. [...]

Obama Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal Prison at Alarming Rate
08 January 2013

This month will see a number of patients sentenced, sent to prison despite compliance with state medical marijuana laws. Fallout from the Obama Administration’s aggressive federal enforcement in medical marijuana states has reached a [...]

The Feds don’t care about pot smokers; they just keep HEMP illegal in order to maintain the power, medicine, and fuel monopolies
06 January 2013

by S. D. Wells (NaturalNews) The Feds (federal government) couldn’t care LESS about pot smokers, and a bunch of people feeling happy and eating nachos late at night while talking about the universe and [...]

Secret Human Testing Revealed in Declassified U.S. Army Documents; Lawsuit Follows
01 January 2013

by Nicholas West It is always a challenge attempting to describe how sick and power mad are some of the elite who have taken up positions within the military-industrial-scientific complex. However, it is becoming easier, [...]

Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are an elaborate CIA spying scheme
31 December 2012

by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer (NaturalNews) They are convenient, relatively easy to use, and help millions of people around the world stay connected with family and friends, at least digitally. But social media [...]