Human Rights

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 [...]

‘Fireme’: Leaked LinkedIn passwords reveal dubious job satisfaction
08 June 2012

‘Hatemyjob’, ‘hopeless’ and ‘anyjob’ were just some of the 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords leaked on a Russian forum. The list of dour logins revealed the worse than pessimistic attitude of millions of users of [...]

10 Signs That The Highways Of America Are Being Transformed Into A High Tech Prison Grid
07 June 2012

by Michael Snyder, Contributor Once upon a time, the open highways of America were one of our greatest symbols of liberty and freedom. Anyone could hop in a car and set off for a [...]

How the HIV Virus Became the US Government’s Most Successful Bio-Weapon
06 June 2012

by Susanne Posel In the rainforest of south-east Cameroon 80% of the meat eaten is “bushmeat”. The indigenous people consume a diet of gorilla, chimpanzee or monkey. It is estimated that an excess of 30,000 gorillas are [...]

POLICE STATE USA: The Paranoid Style of American Governance
04 June 2012

by Prof. James F. Tracy In 1964 Harper‘s magazine published the now famous essay, “The Paranoid Style of American Politics,” by historian and public intellectual Richard Hofstadter. Appearing in the wake of President John F. Kennedy’s [...]

The UN International Telecomminucations Union Next Danger to Internet Freedom
02 June 2012

by Susanne Posel In a few months, Dubai, India will be the stage for a potential firestorm with the internet at the center. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is an extension of the UN that has the control [...]

18 Examples Of The Nanny State Gone Wild
02 June 2012

by Michael Snyder, Contributor America has been overrun by control freaks. Once upon a time the United States was considered to be “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, but today there [...]

Assange loses extradition court battle, 14 days to apply to reopen case (VIDEO)
30 May 2012

London: A supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange pastes up a protrait of Assange onto a Union Flag outside the Supreme Court in central London on May 30, 2012. (AFP Photo / Leon Neal) [...]

Students in Texas to be monitored with microchips
28 May 2012

If it’s good enough for a dog, it’s good enough for a kid, right? A school district in Texas will be watching over its students a lot more closely, but not with the aid [...]

New York wants to ban anonymous speech online
27 May 2012

Lawmakers in New York State are proposing a new legislation that involves the Web, and no, it’s not SOPA-esque or another CISPA-like spy-bill. Politicians in the Empire State want to outlaw anonymous speech on [...]

Twitter banned for blasphemous tweets against prophet @Pakistan
20 May 2012

Pakistan has blocked Twitter ‘indefinitely’ over what it terms “blasphemous” material related to an ongoing competition to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. After extensive discussions with Twitter asking the microblogging service to self-censor [...]

‘Big brother’ lamp posts can hear, see and bark ‘Obey!’ at you
16 May 2012

America welcomes a new brand of smart street lightning systems: energy-efficient, long-lasting, complete with LED screens to show ads. They can also spy on citizens in a way George Orwell would not have imagined in [...]

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks
14 May 2012

A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of being a member of “TeamPoison”, a computer hacking group that has claimed responsibility for 1,400 offences including an attack on the phone system of Scotland [...]

Former CIA Agent Claims Americans Did Not Kill bin Laden
13 May 2012

Osama bin Laden died a natural death nearly 5 years before it was announced that he was eliminated by the American commandos. This sensational statement was made by a Turkish politician, and a former [...]