May 10, 2012 | Activism, News
Global Anti-Monsanto Movement Gains Momentum Across Six Continents A coalition report published jointly by La Via Campesina, Friends of the Earth International, and Combat Monsanto documented a significant escalation in worldwide resistance to the biotechnology giant...
May 9, 2012 | News, WAR: By Design
Leaked Emails Linked Private Military Contractor to Libyan and Syrian Operations Emails obtained from the private intelligence firm Stratfor and published by WikiLeaks revealed that a former Blackwater director who led a private security company played an active role...
May 8, 2012 | News
A Unanimous Ruling Narrows Torture Victims’ Legal Options In April 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that significantly limited the ability of torture victims to seek justice through American courts. The ruling held that foreign...
May 4, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
First American Arrested Using Predator Drone Surveillance The small town of Lakota, North Dakota, became an unexpected battleground over domestic drone use in 2012 when one of its residents became the first known American citizen to be arrested with the assistance of...
May 4, 2012 | Anonymous, News
From the very first release of ‘AntiSec’ related hashtags, Anonymous king-pin Sabu was under full control of the FBI. It is clear this was a red-herring to help promote the cyber-surveillance police state currently undergoing rapid deployment....
Apr 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
What Was CISPA and Why Did It Matter? The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523) emerged in late 2011 as a proposed amendment to the National Security Act of 1947. Introduced by Representatives Mike Rogers (D-MI) and C.A. “Dutch”...
Apr 26, 2012 | News
The Twin Lakes Neighborhood Before the Shooting The February 2012 shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida became one of the most divisive cases in recent American history. While most early media...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Journalists Targeted After Investigating Pentagon Contractors In 2012, two USA Today employees became the targets of a coordinated online disinformation and harassment campaign shortly after making inquiries to intelligence contractors with ties to the U.S. military....
Apr 26, 2012 | Leaks, News
In April 2012, Iran announced that its military engineers had successfully decoded the intelligence systems and memory hard discs of a captured American RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone — an aircraft previously considered one of the most advanced unmanned...
Apr 26, 2012 | Globalist Corporations, News
Monsanto only cares about bee’s so they can figure out how to make them only pollinate Monsanto GMO crops. Whistle-blower testimony and supporting evidence will confirm that Monsanto seeks ultimate agricultural world domination through most incomprehensible and...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
CISPA: The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act Explained In April 2012, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), formally designated H.R. 3523, advanced through the U.S. Congress amid fierce debate over digital privacy and national...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News, Video
Senate Bill 1813 and Its Hidden Implications for Gun Owners In 2012, the U.S. Senate passed Bill 1813, officially titled the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.” While ostensibly a transportation bill, analysts who examined its 1,676 pages...
Apr 25, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law. Senate Bill 1813 was introduced back in...
Apr 24, 2012 | News
FBI Investigation of Anti-Fracking Activists In March 2012, reporting by the Washington Post revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been investigating peaceful climate and anti-fracking activists as potential security threats. Rising Tide North Texas,...
Apr 24, 2012 | Globalist Corporations, News
When Vermont legislators considered a bill requiring mandatory labels on genetically modified food, they ran into an obstacle that had nothing to do with science or public opinion. Monsanto, the agricultural biotechnology giant, threatened to sue the state if the...
Apr 24, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, News
The Kandahar Massacre: Official Narrative vs. Afghan Eyewitness Accounts The question is as old as American military controversies themselves: was a horrific act of violence the work of a single disturbed individual, or were there accomplices who have never been...
Apr 24, 2012 | Globalist Corporations, News
Facebook Caught Accessing Users’ Private Messages In early 2012, an investigation by The Sunday Times of London revealed that Facebook had been quietly reading the text messages of smartphone users who installed the company’s mobile application. The social...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
In the spring of 2012, Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) rolled out a sweeping Invasive Species Order (ISO) that effectively reclassified heritage-breed pigs — the same animals small family farms had raised for generations — as illegal...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
How Law Enforcement Bypassed iPhone Passcodes A four-digit iPhone passcode might deter a casual snoop, but in 2012, law enforcement agencies had access to commercial tools that could crack that security in remarkably little time. A Swedish firm called Micro...
Apr 24, 2012 | News, Video, WAR: By Design
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWItcSRrM8 “We want the Syrian Army to come into Homs.” “We want the Syrian Army posted on the roofs of the houses, with helicopters and tanks.” “Stop these snipers from killing us.” ~ The Residents...
Apr 20, 2012 | Globalist Corporations, News
Qorvis Communications, a Washington D.C.-based public relations and lobbying firm, built its business around some of the most controversial clients in international politics. Founded in 2000 through the merger of three smaller firms, with powerhouse law firm Patton...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Executive Order on National Defense Resources Preparedness: What It Actually Claims In March 2012, President Obama signed an Executive Order titled “National Defense Resources Preparedness” that significantly expanded the claimed scope of executive...
Apr 16, 2012 | Globalist Corporations, News
In December 2011, a fund managed by Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney, acquired the video surveillance division of a Chinese technology company. The newly formed entity, Uniview Technologies, claimed to be the largest supplier to...
Apr 16, 2012 | Black Technology, Government Agenda, News
Could the NSA Already Defeat Modern Encryption? For roughly two decades, one question has loomed over the digital security landscape: does the National Security Agency possess the ability to crack widely used encryption standards such as PGP? While classified programs...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, known as CISPA, rapidly emerged as the internet’s most controversial proposed law following the defeat of SOPA. Critics warned it posed severe threats to online privacy and civil liberties under the guise of...
