Activists Worldwide Face Off Against Face Recognition: 2019 Year in Review
By Katitza Rodriguez We’ve all heard the expression, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” We might hope that what we do and where we…
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Morocco Arrests Journalist And YouTuber; Singapore Defends Fake News Law
By Aaron Kesel All over the world there has been a crackdown of freedom of the press and speech. Now, Morocco has arrested a journalist…
Longest Internet Disruption in Myanmar’s Rakhine State Sets Dangerous Precedent
By Mong Palatino On 21 June 2019, Myanmar authorities ordered the blocking of the internet in nine townships of Rakhine and Chin States in northern…
Death Toll Reaches 27 in India’s Citizenship Protests
By Vishal Yashoda As of December 27, 2019, at least 27 people have been killed and thousands have been arrested amid demonstrations in India against…
Nullification Movement News: Surveillance, Asset Forfeiture, Prohibition & More
By The Tenth Amendment Center With 2020 upon us, Michael Boldin reports on the latest nullification bills for the upcoming legislative session. From mass surveillance…
“Opposing Interventionism In Nation X Means You Love Nation X’s Government!”
By Caitlin Johnstone Every time you speak out against Western imperialism in a given nation or question Western propaganda narratives about that nation’s government, you…
City Tells Church It Will Lose Religious Designation Because It Shelters Homeless People
By John Vibes Earlier this week, on Christmas Eve, an order from the city of Cleveland was posted on the door of the Denison Avenue…
Dodging Bullets on the Path to a Decentralized Future: 2019 in Review
By Danny O’Brien The Internet’s decentralized nature has historically been its greatest super-power, granting it the ability to shrug off censors and spies and redistribute…
Day 12: Rejecting Technocracy
By Patrick Wood Having just written eleven essays showing how Technocracy is a malignant cancer growing at breakneck speed all around the world, and especially…
The Freedom Flotilla Will Make its 35th Attempt to Sail to Gaza in 2020
By Ramzy Baroud What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by…
Abduction of Human Rights Activist Highlights Chilling Trend in Tanzania
By Global Voices, Sub-Saharan Africa Prominent human rights activist Tito Magoti was abducted in broad daylight by five unknown people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,…
Taking Action For Assange: This Is What Real Activism Looks Like — Politicians Exposed!
By Jason Bermas Dack Rouleau is the rare breed of front-line activist willing to step up and ask direct questions to the political establishment. As…
Hong Kong Police Arrest 4 Alleged Financiers Of The Protest Movement
By Tyler Durden On Thursday, police in Hong Kong announced the arrests of several individuals whom they described as leaders of the Hong Kong protests…
“Monstrous”: Canadian Police Prepared to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders, Documents Show
By Jessica Corbett In an exclusive report Friday that outraged human rights advocates worldwide, The Guardian revealed that Canadian police wanted snipers on standby for a January 2019 crackdown on…