UK Government Wants to Ban WhatsApp and All Other Encrypted Communications
By Carey Wedler The U.K. government is eager to expand already extensive spying powers to ban iMessage, WhatsApp, and Snapchat because the government cannot bypass…
Carey Wedler
New SWAT Documents Detail the Brutal Reality of U.S. Police Militarization
By Carey Wedler Massachusetts SWAT teams made headlines last year when they refused to grant a public information request to the ACLU, claiming they were…
Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA, & Army Can Control Your Computer
By Carey Wedler Leaked emails from an Italian-based hacking company reveal that government agencies engage in surveillance more invasive than previously thought, spending millions of…
New App Is Helping Feed Hundreds of Thousands of Homeless People
By Carey Wedler When UC Berkeley student Komal Ahmad invited a homeless man to lunch three years ago, she was inspired to create an app…
Why Banning Things Almost Never Works
By Carey Wedler After the tragic Charleston shooting last week, South Carolina’s governor demanded a ban on the Confederate flag shifting the national conversation from…
The Final Frontier: US Building War Command Center to Take Foreign Policy to Space
By Carey Wedler According to Defense One, the Pentagon is rushing to build a space war center to sustain its global power. Within six months,…
US Government Finally Admits Agent Orange Poisoned Troops
By Carey Wedler Decades after the Vietnam War, the Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledged this week that Monsanto’s Agent Orange—a dangerous herbicide sprayed over 4.5…
Alarming Study Links Painkiller Prescriptions to Higher Homicide Rates
By Carey Wedler A new study released by Finnish and Swedish researchers suggests that prescription painkillers can increase a user’s risk of committing homicide by…
Mother Faces 30 Years in Prison for Using Cannabis to Treat Crohn’s Disease
By Carey Wedler Last month, Kansas mother Shona Banda made headlines when her son was removed from her custody after he defended her use of…
New Study Confirms BP Linked To Dolphin Deaths in Gulf of Mexico
By Carey Wedler A new study published in the peer-reviewed online journal PLOS ONE hypothesizes that dolphins are dying in mass directly because of BP’s…
Retired Police Captain: I Trust #Anonymous More than the Feds
By Carey Wedler Ray Lewis, a retired Philadelphia police captain, claimed Thursday that he was not only targeted by the Department of Homeland Security, but…
Drug War Fail: More Heroin Addicts Are Created By Doctors Than Drug Dealers
By Carey Wedler A recently released Drug Enforcement Administration report reveals not only that heroin use has exploded, but that 4 out of 5 new…
Why The $5.7 Billion Dollar Fine On Big Banks Is Actually A Joke
By Carey Wedler On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced that 5 major banks will be fined a total of about $5.7 billion. The banks pleaded…
Only Audit the Military Has Passed in 20 Years Was Exposed As Fraudulent
By Carey Wedler In 2013, the Marine Corps celebrated the first time that any sector of the military had passed a legally mandated financial audit….