Human Rights

Time for Technology Companies to Stand Up for Human Rights
08 May 2012

EFF White Paper Outlines How Businesses Can Avoid Assisting Repressive Regimes San Francisco – It’s time for technology companies that sell surveillance and filtering equipment to step up and ensure they aren’t helping governments [...]

Sixth Lulzsec Hacker charged for loss of 60,000 credit card from Stratfor
06 May 2012

Jeremy Hammond, the former LulzSec member alleged to have been at the center of the hacking of private intelligence company Stratfor, Hammond is believed to have been the driving force behind the group’s breach of intelligence [...]

5 Ways Robots Are Outsourcing Humans in the Workforce
06 May 2012

by Nicholas West The outsourcing of human jobs as a side effect of globalization has arguably contributed to the current unemployment crisis. However, a growing trend sees humans done away with altogether, even in the [...]

Copyright Claims Shut Down Websites With No Proof or Due Process
05 May 2012

by Eric Blair Who needs SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) or the international ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) when companies can have websites or YouTube channels removed simply by claiming their content has been infringed? That [...]

CIA Chief : We will Spy on You Through Your TV
24 April 2012

According to the Central Intelligence Agency, the organization says spies won’t have to plant bugs in homes, businesses or other places where they want to spy because of coming advances in computer and Internet [...]

Woman Receives Anonymous Threats after Opposing Monsanto
23 April 2012

by Mike Barrett After losing a 3-day old daughter to kidney failure, a woman named Sofia Gatica from Argentina made a decision to spearhead an anti-Monsanto movement with other mothers of sick children. Monsanto is [...]

Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
10 April 2012

by Bill Quigley Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens.  The Washington Post reported there are 3,984 federal, state and local organizations working on domestic counterterrorism.  [...]

Monsanto’s GMO Seeds Contributing to Farmer Suicides Every 30 Minutes
04 April 2012

by Anthony Gucciardi In what has been called the single largest wave of recorded suicides in human history, Indian farmers are now killing themselves in record numbers. It has been extensively reported, even in mainstream [...]

Kids All Over America Are Being Put On Buses And Sent To Alternate Locations During School Terror Drills
02 April 2012

by Michael Snyder, Contributor All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to “alternate locations” during terror drills.  These exercises are often called “evacuation drills” [...]

Microsoft censoring Windows Live Messenger chats under guise of fighting piracy
02 April 2012

by Madison Ruppert Piracy seems to be the favorite excuse nowadays when it comes to censorship, destroying internet freedom, and even absurdly large domestic digital surveillance operations. Now Microsoft, one of the world’s largest corporations in [...]

Why Does The Department Of Homeland Security Need 450 Million Hollow Point Bullets?
30 March 2012

by Michael Snyder, Contributor Somebody out there has decided that the Department of Homeland Security needs a whole lot of ammunition.  Recently it was announced that ATK was awarded a contract to provide up to 450 million hollow [...]

EU declares war on hackers, threatens long jail terms
29 March 2012

Internet hackers will face significantly tougher criminal penalties after a new draft resolution was passed in the European Parliament with an overwhelming majority. “We are dealing here with serious criminal attacks, some of which [...]

US Army Organ Donor Registry: The Pentagon’s Recycling Program
29 March 2012

I’d like to expand your understanding of how sick, how anti-human, and how deranged American war is with some of my discoveries regarding Army organ transplantation, widespread brain damage, and the tormented victims of [...]

America Ranks 1st Among Western Nations for…Executing its Citizens
28 March 2012

It’s rare for America to rank number one among Western nations in many categories, but they managed to come out on top as the only Western country to execute its own citizens according to [...]

Israelis and Iranians Against War
27 March 2012

by Stephen Lendman, Contributor Israelis aren’t all like Netanyahu and Knesset extremists like him. Most want peace, not war. On March 24, Haaretz headlined, “Hundreds of Israelis march in Tel Aviv to protest war with Iran,” saying: A [...]