TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
H.R.6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, passed in the House of Representatives on November 30. The legislation deals with a number of intelligence-related issues, including Russian propaganda, or what the government calls propaganda. Section 501 calls for the government to counter “measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination Read More…
On Thursday, December 1, a vital Supreme Court order is set to go into effect that dramatically expands the surveillance power of federal agents. The impending alteration to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure softens the legal requirements for obtaining search and seizure warrants that grant the government remote access to individual’s Read More…
Most of the time, the president says things we more or less agree with. When he says things along the lines of attacks on civilians must be stopped, of course, we all approve. How can we not? The only problem is that usually, he is only applying those standards to uncooperative governments and never to Read More…
A viral 4chan thread has had the internet in a frenzy with rumors that WikiLeaks is compromised and its founder, Julian Assange, is either dead or missing. The organization dismissed the rumors, but did not disclose concrete information about whether Assange is alive. Black-PR campaign posts going around recently trying to suppress submissions to WikiLeaks. False, but who benefits? https://t.co/okg2jwgGzL — Read More…
Julian Assange cautioned all of us a while back, in the vein of revelations similar to those provided by Edward Snowden, that Google — the insidious search engine with a reputation for powering humanity’s research — plays the dark hand role in furthering U.S. imperialism and foreign policy agendas. Now, as the WikiLeaks founder faces days Read More…
If elected this week Hillary Clinton will turn up the heat on brinkmanship with Russia. Democrats insist Russia is behind the DNC hack—never mind evidence, there is none—and Obama has directed the CIA to launch a cyber attack on Russia. The CIA’s RadioFreeEurope and RadioLiberty claim a Russian hacker group has taken responsibility for the Read More…