Month: October 2020

The Pentagon is moving forward with plans for a massive exercise with Thailand next week, signaling direct U.S. cooperation with the military junta that runs “Pentagon to Hold Joint Exercise With Thailand's Military Junta”

Canada’s electronic spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), collects millions of emails and other information from its citizens and stores them for “days to “Snowden Document Reveals Huge Scope of Canada's Domestic Surveillance”

A week after the Federal Communications Commission passed a landmark vote enshrining protections for net neutrality and mobile broadband, Republicans and cable industry giants are “In Net Neutrality Fight, Both Sides Gear Up for Long Haul”

An international coalition of doctors representing seven Pacific Rim countries is demanding the public release of draft trade agreements currently being negotiated in secret between “Doctors Worldwide Blast TPP's 'Chilling Effect' on Health, Climate Protections”

With its deep cuts to higher education, Medicaid, pension benefits, and social services, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget is being called “reckless,” “heartless,” and “Austerity in Illinois? Critics Slam 'Morally Reprehensible' Budget Proposal”

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia and one of the most highly-trafficked websites in the world, announced Tuesday that it—alongside a host of civil liberty advocates, news “Wikimedia vs. NSA: Major Lawsuit Challenges Government Surveillance of US Citizens”

Amid warnings that the Saudi-led attack on Yemen is taking a devastating toll on civilians, including more than 75 children killed since fighting began, the “With Scores of Children Among Civilian Dead in Yemen, US Sending More Weapons”

BALTIMORE — Twenty-one months out, House Democratic leaders are already promising that they will pick up seats in the 2018 midterm elections. The lawmakers say “Dem campaign chief: 'No question' we'll pick up House seats in 2018”

Provisions of international trade deals currently under negotiation threaten domestic sovereignty while giving corporations special legal rights, charges a letter signed by more than 100 “Trade Deals Will Supplant Democracy with Corporate Tribunals, Warn Critics”

A judiciary panel on Monday quietly approved a rule change that would increase the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s surveillance powers, despite concerns over privacy and “FBI Plan to Expand Hacking Powers Moves Forward”