TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
Western think tanks have been increasingly busy cultivating a narrative to explain the sudden and spreading presence of militants linked or fighting under the banner of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS) across Southeast Asia. This narrative – these think tanks would have audiences believe – entails militants fleeing Syria and Iraq, and entrenching themselves amid Read More…
A mere few years ago the idea that artificial intelligence (AI) might be used to analyze and report to law enforcement aberrant human behavior on social media and other online platforms was merely the far out premise of dystopian movies such as Minority Report, but now Facebook proudly brags that it will use AI to “save lives” Read More…
The US government is holding hundreds of people without trial, shackled to the decks of Coast Guard boats for months, all to enforce the drug war. (TFTP) The war on drugs has produced the vilest police state one can imagine. From secret black site prisons—operating in Chicago—with no due process, to midnight raids in which babies Read More…
Self-proclaimed “press freedom watchdog” Reporters Without Borders launched a new campaign that it deemed of urgent importance – shutting down a short panel discussion by journalist Vanessa Beeley and Swedish Doctors for Human Rights. The USAID/NED-funded RWB wrote an open letter published in the Tribune de Geneve addressed to Guy Mettan, Executive Director of the Swiss Press Club, the organization that Read More…
The Pentagon intends to expand the U.S. military presence in northern Syria even after the total elimination of ISIS, The Washington Post reported. The newspaper also said that the U.S. would support the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to pressure Assad and make concessions at United Nations-brokered peace talks in Geneva. According to the White Read More…
A former Clinton Foundation executive has ties to a NYSE-traded company now embroiled in a sexual assault scandal involving young children. (TFTP) China has been rocked with an international scandal involving a publicly traded educational institution and its site-based kindergarten, which is accused of acting as a breeding ground for pedophilia. Now, it seems, a Read More…