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Bob McNamara of Spillville, Iowa, and others, listen to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop at the Electric Park Ballroom, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

62% Of The People Trump Re-tweeted This Week Follow Multiple White Supremacist Accounts

Archives for January 2016

Human Rights Watch Warns: Terrorism, Refugee Crisis Curbing Freedoms

The French government has this week voted to extend its emergency powers, which include a ban of public gatherings, which has drawn criticism from liberty campaigners.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Policemen fight with activists during a protest ahead of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference at the place de la Republique, in Paris, Sunday, Nov. 29, 2015. More than 140 world leaders are gathering around Paris for high-stakes climate talks that start Monday, and activists are holding marches and protests around the world to urge them to reach a strong agreement to slow global warming. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

The leading campaign group Human Rights Watch has warned that the threat of terrorism globally as well as the refugee crisis in Europe have led to many western governments imposing crackdown on basic rights. The issue is particularly controversial in France, which has just agreed to extend its emergency measures, following the November 13

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Bernie Sanders Just Blocked Obama’s Nominee To Head FDA over Ties to Big Pharma

“Dr. Califf’s extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry give me no reason to believe that he would make the FDA work for ordinary Americans, rather than just the CEOs of pharmaceutical companies.”

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, speaks during a campaign rally in Springfield, Mass., Saturday, Oct. 3, 2105. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Senator Bernie Sanders put a hold on President Barack Obama’s nominee to take over the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday, joining with two other senators who have also objected to Dr. Robert M. Califf’s nomination, citing his ties to corporate drug manufacturers. “Dr. Califf’s extensive ties to the pharmaceutical industry give me no

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IRA Terrorist Behind 1993 Belfast Bombing Was ‘MI5 Informant’ – Leaked Documents

Belfast Bombing

RT
By RT
Aftermath of the Shankill Road Bombing © Wikipedia

Northern Ireland’s police watchdog is investigating allegations that the IRA operative who planned the 1993 Shankhill Road bombing was an MI5 informant who gave intelligence that could have helped security forces stop the atrocity. Nine civilians, including two children, were killed in the attack on a fish shop in Belfast’s loyalist

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BuzzFeed Faces $11m Defamation Lawsuit From News Agency

Central European News and its founder Michael Leidig claim that an article titled ‘The King of Bullsh*t News’ deliberately set out to damage the business.

The Guardian
By The Guardian

BuzzFeed is being sued for $11m (£7.7m) by a news agency and its founder over an article titled “The King of Bullsh*t News”. Central European News, founded and run by British journalist Michael Leidig, has launched a US legal action claiming that BuzzFeed’s 7,000-word article deliberately set out to damage its business. The article, published

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Chicago Police Have Been Sabotaging Their Dash Cams

Last month the CPD found that 80 percent of its 850 dash cams do not record audio, and 12 percent don’t record video either.

NY Mag
By NY Mag
Chicago Police

After the notorious video of Laquan McDonald getting shot by Chicago police officers 16 times went viral last November, investigators have been making their way through the other videos of the scene. In doing so, they've discovered that three of the dash cams pointed at McDonald that day did not record video, and others had no audio. Now a Chicago

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Profits Over Rights As UK Sells Spy Gear To Repressive Regimes

‘What’s needed is that human rights considerations take precedence over financial incentives and security relationships.’

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Royal Saudi Land Forces and units of Special Forces of the Pakistani army take part in a joint military exercise called "Al-Samsam 5" in Shamrakh field, north of Baha region, southwest Saudi Arabia.

The UK government is signing off on the sales of advanced surveillance technologies to repressive regimes that it has admonished for human rights abuses, the Independent exclusively reported Wednesday. The information about the sales to countries, which include Saudi Arabia and Egypt, was found by London-based surveillance watchdog Privacy

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