As the doors to the digital gulag silently lock behind us, most people are unaware that they have been assisting in the construction of their own prison. The reliance on technology in the 21st century has created an unnatural dependency on the digital world that most people just can’t shake. Patrick Wood has been writing…
Legal intern Raj Gambhir was the principal author of this post. The Trump administration has restricted the First Amendment right to record law enforcement by issuing an unprecedented nationwide flight restriction preventing private drone operators, including professional and citizen journalists, from flying drones within half a mile of any ICE or CBP vehicle. In January, EFF and…
…bomb Israel out of existence………and force the U.S. military out of the Middle East. Submitted by Revisionist Historians for World PeaceSOTN Exclusive Now here’s why: President Trump canceled the “Iran nuclear deal”, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on May 8, 2018 so he could — during his second term — invade Iran…
More than one hundred United States-based international law experts have warned that American strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes. These violations come only a few months after the U.S. committed obvious war crimes when it bombed civilian boats in the Caribbean, accusing them of “narco terrorism.” Experts were citing violations of the United…
China has just taken another decisive step toward the future of money, and once again, the West is pretending this is simply about “payment efficiency.” The People’s Bank of China has now expanded its digital yuan program by adding 12 additional banks, bringing the total number of participating institutions to 22. China launched the digital yuan back…
Guest Post by Mark Keenan There are moments in history when systems of control begin to lose their effectiveness—not because they are dismantled, but because they are no longer believed. We may be entering such a moment now. The signals are contradictory. On the surface, the world appears increasingly unstable—conflicts escalate in the Middle East, economic…
Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of a drive to restrict human rights and “tear up the social fabric.” Amnesty’s new 95-page report (in Spanish, with an English summary), criticizes governments across the political spectrum for attacking what it calls “civil society…
There is a moment—subtle, almost impossible to locate precisely—when a society begins to feel different. Not dramatically. Not in a way that triggers immediate alarm. But in small, almost negligible shifts: prices that no longer make sense, opportunities that seem harder to reach, institutions that respond slower than they used to. At first, these are…
ScheerPost Staff In a stark and unsettling conversation on The Chris Hedges Report, journalist Chris Hedges sits down with retired Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson to confront a question now hanging over Washington’s war planning: Is the United States preparing to send ground forces into Iran? The interview arrives at a moment when the American-Israeli war on Iran has already burned through massive military…
The Donald plunged into one hell of a hornets nest when he took the bait from Bibi Netanyahu and launched an all out “kinetic” war on Iran (as distinguished from the brutal economic war Washington has been waging for decades). But now that the gasoline pump price has breached $4/gallon and is heading higher, he’s…
