Human Rights

Hydra’s new head: Copyright activists in panic over CETA
11 July 2012

Less than a week has passed since ACTA was defeated by a comprehensive vote in the European parliament. But some copyright activists believe its provisions may get in through the backdoor via the CETA [...]

Warrantless cell phone tracking sky-rockets in US
09 July 2012

A report released by US cell phone companies shows a disturbing spike in the number of requests by US law enforcement agencies for cell phone information. Even more disturbing, most law enforcement agencies do [...]

Doomsday Bloody Doomsday: Why Is Bono Supporting the G8′s GMO Initiative That Will F#&% Africa?
06 July 2012

by Jill Ettinger Claiming that the continent of Africa is to this century what North America was to the 19th, U2 frontman Bono has become one of the biggest supporters of the recently announced [...]

IARPA: US Government Spies on Us Through Vimeo and YouTube
04 July 2012

by Susanne Posel Igor Curcio heads a team of researchers at the Nokia Research Center has developed complicated algorithms that can take clips of thousands of films, and create a movie that is seamless [...]

Love liberty? You might be a terrorist
04 July 2012

Are you suspicious of federal authority? How about really into individual liberty? Well according to a new study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, you very well might be a terrorist. A [...]

Assange rejects police request to surrender
29 June 2012

Supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sit outside Ecuador’s Embassy in London June 22, 2012. (Reuters/Neil Hall) WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said that he rejects the British police’s request to hand himself in [...]

Ending the Drug War Should Be a “Left, Right, and Center” Concern
28 June 2012

by Elizabeth Renter It doesn’t take a genius, a criminal justice scholar or an activist to realize that something is wrong with the fact that the United States incarcerates more people than any other [...]

Drone industry becomes a booming business
22 June 2012

US drone (AFP Photo) Drones are set to take over US skies soon, and there is growing concern the public will lose their privacy to these spy planes. The winners are the drone makers, [...]

Google Admits Governments Using Their Services to Censor the Internet
21 June 2012

by Susanne Posel Google claims that they have been told by authorities from various governments, by way of more than 1,000 requests, to remove content from YouTube in the last 6 months of 2011. [...]

If you sell your used iPad, you may be a copyright criminal, says U.S. Supreme Court
21 June 2012

by J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) There is another copyright battle emerging over intellectual property, and this time you, John or Jane Q. Citizen, could be smack-dab in the middle of it, for one of [...]

Monsanto Faced with Paying 7.5 Billion Back to Farmers
20 June 2012

by Anthony Gucciardi Monsanto may soon be forced to pay as much as 7.5 billion dollars back to the farmers who say that the mega corporation took their rightfully earned income and taxed their [...]

Japan Enters Next Phase of Centralized Surveillance
17 June 2012

Although moving slower in some areas than others, there is little doubt that the plan to number, track, and trace every human being on the planet via biometric data and other digital means is [...]

Revealed: Yahoo and Microsoft sell personal user data to political campaigns
16 June 2012

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP If you have an account with Yahoo or Microsoft, you should ask either of the two Silicon Valley titans for compensation. Both corporations have been selling sensitive personal user information to [...]

Cops have a new game to play
11 June 2012

by Ken Hildebrand Contributing writer for End the Lie and host of the Information Nation on Orion Talk Radio For quite a while now the police have had a new toy to play with, the taser. Now they have [...]

More soldiers die from suicide than combat
11 June 2012

by J. D. Heyes (NaturalNews) Another extremely sad revelation following a decade of war – new Pentagon statistics are showing that the military is losing an average of one soldier per day not to [...]