Thousands Rallied in DC Against NSA Surveillance on Patriot Act Anniversary
by Ali Papademetriou On Saturday, which was the 12th anniversary of the US Patriot Act’s signing, thousands of activists gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the mass surveillance that’s been going...
View ArticleDocument Reveals NSA Monitored 125 Billion Phone Calls in One Month
by Joe Wolverton The Fourth Amendment protects the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,...
View ArticleAlongside Common Core, Feds Will Vacuum Up Data on Kids
by Alex Newman Alongside the highly controversial nationalization of education via the Obama administration-backed “Common Core,” the federal government is bribing and bullying state governments into...
View ArticleSeattle Seizes Private Parking Lot to Build New Parking Lot
by Zenon Evans Citing the need for more public parking, the City Council of Seattle made a unanimous decision this week to force a 103-year-old woman to sell a plot of land that is already a parking...
View ArticleFBI Makes Record $28 Million Bitcoin Bust
by RT US authorities have reported their largest-ever Bitcoin bust amounting to $28 million of the digital currency. It was seized from the owner of the controversial Silk Road website, which was shut...
View ArticleWill Los Angeles Become the Largest GMO-Free Zone in the US?
by Ali Papademetriou The city of Los Angeles, California is in the works of banning the growth and retail of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Such a move would make it the largest city in the US...
View Article21 Countries Backing UN Effort Against NSA Internet Surveillance
by Ali Papademetriou Brazil and Germany recently collaborated to enforce a United Nations General Resolution to uphold privacy, particularly that of the Internet, in response to the consistent strings...
View ArticleMore Lies: Obama Has Known About NSA Spying on Germany for Years
by Ali Papademetriou Last week, the US National Security Agency was forced to deny that its director, Keith Alexander, had ever had discussions with President Obama about the surveillance scandal...
View ArticleTSA to Pre-Screen Air Travelers’ Tax Info, Property Records, Travel History
by Joe Wolverton Owe money to the IRS? Having trouble making your mortgage payments? Ever been sued or been arrested? Soon, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will know the answers to...
View ArticleSnowden Slams U.S. NSA and British GCHQ for Uncontrolled Surveillance
by Warren Mass In an open letter published on November 3 by the German news magazine Der Spiegel, whistleblower Edward Snowden accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its British...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg and His Gang Look to Ban E-Cigs in Public Places
by Ezra Van Auken For New York City officials, electronic cigarettes, better known as ‘e-cigs’, are causing concern among the county council, and like with any given opportunity in policymaking,...
View Article700,000 Americans on the Terror Watch List, Still Riddled With False Information
by Ryan Singel The nation’s centralized terrorist watch list that is used to screen 270 million individuals every month now contains more than 700,000 entries, but remains marred by duplication,...
View ArticleBan Anything, but Driving: New Jersey Looking to Fine Drivers for Nearly...
by Ezra Van Auken Don’t pull your road map out, change the radio station, play the air drums or take a call from family, New Jersey could become the next state to ban anything, but driving. It seems...
View ArticleHouse Committee Refused to Ban Drone Strikes on Unidentified People
by Jason Ditz Two weeks ago, the House Intelligence Committee completed its text for the 2014 Intelligence Authorization Act. The bill is out of committee and facing a vote in the broader House,...
View ArticleDefending the ‘Surveillance State’, NSA Staff Sent Home with Thanksgiving...
by Ezra Van Auken Although the Thanksgiving celebrations are over, they’re certainly not out of sight, just yet. And while some families chose to dabble and laugh over past memories and family updates,...
View ArticleNSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide, Snowden Documents Show
by Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Throws a Ban on 3D-Printed Guns, D.C. Lawmakers Looking to...
by Ezra Van Auken For gun rights advocates, defending the Second Amendment doesn’t necessarily imply conventional firearms anymore, but rather a new phenomenon, 3D-printed guns. With policymakers both...
View ArticleFormer Rep. Paul Declares Bitcoin the “Destroyed of the Dollar”
by Ezra Van Auken The longtime Texas Congressman, who although is no longer participating in Washington, but still maintains an influential role in the political field, has sounded off his thoughts on...
View ArticleObama Promises Libertarians NSA Reform, Rep. wants ‘Intelligence Czar’ Charged
by Ezra Van Auken Giving lip service to the American people, particularly those who’ve been concerned with privacy from the government, President Obama reassured listeners last Thursday that...
View ArticleNo, Seriously – San Francisco, the ‘Nanny City’, Looks to Ban the Release of...
by Ezra Van Auken Banning the release of butterflies? Sure, why not. For San Francisco, a city that’s become prone to banning just about anything, it shouldn’t come as surprise that the city is now...
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